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GLINTS OF WISDOM 

OR 

Helpful Sayings for Busy Moments 

BEING 

ABSTRACT FROM LECTURES 

WITH 
REFLECTIONS, STATEMENTS, MEDITATIONS, AND MOTTOES 

BY 

W. J. COLVILLE 

AUTHOR OF 

Health from Knowledge, Fate Mastered, Destiny Fulfilled, Life and 

Power from Within, Mental Therapeutics, The Living Decalogue, 

The Throne of Eden, Old and New Psychology, Dashed 

Against the Rock, Universal Spiritualism, Etc. 

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOLOGICAL LAWS CONTAINED 
IN AN ENDLESS VARIETY OF SUBJECTS 



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LIST OF SUBJECTS. 

The Word 9 

Thought 11 

Knowledge 15 

Cause and Effect 22 

Limitation • 29 

Servility 32 

Individuality 35 

Mental Healing 41 

Inversion 51 

Liberalism 56 

The Coming Religion 63 

Alternative 64 

Chastening ■ 68 

Persistence 71 

Concentration 74 

Destiny 78 

Heredity 84 

Specialty 86 

Law of Attraction 89 



Recognition of Qualification 94 

Polarity 96 

Harmonious Vibration 102 

Telepathy 108 

Correspondences 110 

Association and Organization 112 

Memory 113 

Karma • 115 

Emanations 120 

The Real Ego-Atma 125 

Dreaming True 132 

Psychical Unfoldment 140 

Spiritism 150 

Elective Affinity 154 

Auras-Psychical Environment 156 

List of Books 160 




PREFACE. 

The shorthand notes from which this volume has 
been compiled were taken, and the transcription be- 
gun, with no thought beyond the personal benefit and 
satisfaction to be derived from their perusal from 
time to time. 

As the work of copying advanced, however, the idea 
of sharing my valuable collection of beautiful truths 
with others who are in the pathway of the higher 
thought became an impelling motive. 

While each excerpt is complete in itself, and the 
original intent was to cite them in the order reported 
from the lectures, yet, for the sake of convenient ref- 
erence, they have been arranged as seemed suitable; 
the method of compilation and classification suggest- 
ing itself, and ultimately developing into the form 
here presented. 

A helpful, inspiring motto may be found in nearly 
every citation ; but the grouping of several at the close 
of each subject, it is hoped, may aid in securing that 
concentration which leads to healing and unf oldment. 

So, with hopeful expectancy that these truths may 
indeed prove helpful Sayings for Leisure Moments, 



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and that an acceptable and inspiring suggestion may- 
appeal with strengthening influence to many, when in 
doubt, or disheartened — and believing it will meet 
with a warm welcome from those whose privilege it has 
been to listen to this gifted speaker — I affectionately 
offer this little volume to all who are of the brother- 
hood and sisterhood of Spiritual Science, and to all 
who seek to become familiar with its inspiring doc- 
trine. A. E. L. 

Note. — The MS. of this work having been submitted to me for 
approval and correction, I have carefully revised it, and gladly 
pronounce it authentic. W. J. Colville. 



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THE WORD. 

"In the beginning was the word." Words are nec- 
essarily forms for the expression of ideas. There is 
vastly more meaning in them than the majority of 
people attach to words. 

A condition is made by the speaking of a word. 
The spoken words "I am glad," attract gladness. We 
can attract to us whatsoever we demand. 

Whenever we wish a thing, we should voice it — just 
as a master calls a dog. Every person and every 
thing answers to his, her, or its name. Putting power 
on the basis of immutable law, we may call for what 
we wish. 

Whatever we call upon in the universe answers the 
call. The statement "Wherever two or three are 
gathered together in My name [in the name of any 
good] there am I [the object sought] in the midst of 
them," is in accordance with the Law of Attraction. 
If gathered together in the name of Truth, there is 
Truth. 

We are responsible for every word we speak ; there 
is limitless power in the spoken word. Every word 
carries power and conviction with it. There is no 
chance, and there are no accidents. 

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"According to thy word be it unto thee." It is en- 
tirely woman's fault if man's estimate of her is low — it 
is woman's own opinion thrust back upon her. 

It is absolutely necessary, in all teaching, to avoid 
using two words for the same thing, as words have 
widely different meanings. 

MOTTO. 

Every man is God's spoken word. 



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THOUGHT. 

Thought is the magnet that attracts everything to 
itself. 

Everything originates in the thought world. Every 
material thing springs from the mind of some individ- 
ual. 

We bring upon ourselves an immense amount of 
trouble because we act without thought; we take the 
consequences of our own ignorant actions. 

People express what they express in consequence of 
their chronic habits of thought. We must learn to 
live always in the best and highest thought; to take 
note of our thoughts; to encourage only those 
thoughts which, when manifested in external forms, 
express in forms of beauty. 

As every thought you think about yourself comes 
back to you, every time you call yourself "a poor crea- 
ture," it will come back to you. The "worm" theol- 
ogy has made worms of vast numbers of people. 
"According to thy word, be it unto thee," is univer- 
sally the case. 

A great many people want to be well, but they do 
not wish to think along the lines that lead to health. 

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People want to be well, and at the same time they 
wish to be unmolested in their bad thoughts — their 
venom. They must either change their thoughts and 
get well, or they must hold the old thought and re- 
main ill. 

The mental healer needs to know what thought 
must be expressed in place of a thought that makes 
for illness. No one can be permanently cured by any 
external method. No one can be cured until the cause 
of disorder is removed. 

"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth 
speaketh." We often hear the expression, "a speak- 
ing countenance." We can all read character when 
we become familiar with its signs. We know that, on 
the physical plane, there are healthy and unhealthy 
positions of the body; all that the mental healer de- 
clares is that on the subjective plane — where we are 
dealing with thought — there is a way to think that 
will produce health. When we think in the right way, 
we are well ; and when we think in the wrong way, we 
are ill. Effect follows cause ; our ignorance makes no 
difference with the law. 

By holding to the ground that one is entitled to 
honest dealing, that he will be honest and demand 
honesty from others, people around him will be held in 

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Thought 

the thought of honesty; he will make for honesty in 
the community. If we hold people in the thought of 
dishonesty, we are making for dishonesty. 

Whenever one holds the thought that people are 
going to do wrong things, he vitiates the atmosphere. 
The person who eggs another on to do a wrong is just 
as much to blame as the wrong-doer. These are the 
very hypocrites denounced by Christ. One who un- 
dertakes to pass judgment or condemnation upon his 
neighbor is a hypocrite. If one is easily influenced, 
the one who holds a wrong thought in regard to him 
helps to make him a wrong-doer. 

Thought can be sent out into a room or any place. 
You can send into an apartment a helpful thought 
whenever you wish to do so — provided you have no 
doubt as to the matter. 

Many people have been accused of plagiarism when 
they have only picked out of the atmosphere thoughts 
that have passed out from others. Our very thoughts 
— the very words we may be writing — can be taken 
up by other people in this way. 

Everything readjusts itself; every thought we yield 
to reflects itself in our conditions. 

A circumstance matters not at all to a person who 
recognizes the sovereignty of thought. Any place is 
a sanctuary where one's mental state is holy. 

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MEDITATION. 



The more unfolded we are ourselves, the more good 
we must do, wherever we go and whatever we under- 
take. If the thought is right, good thought goes 
through the work — whatever the thing done, the 
worker makes the work sublime through his own high 
concept. 



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KNOWLEDGE. 

What constitutes knowledge ? Experience is an in- 
terior realization. 

The intellect is subject to continual change. 

The most that one knows is the limit of that per- 
son's present attainment. The limit of our attain- 
ment to-day is higher than it was in days gone by ; but 
the limit of our attainment to-day is not the limit of 
our attainment for days to come. The order of de- 
velopment is first, animal instinct, next the intellec- 
tual, and then the higher spiritual qualities ; our moral 
and spiritual attainments are superadded to the ani- 
mal and intellectual. 

Those who are now on the lower rungs of the ladder 
must live through different and higher expressions, 
either on this planet or elsewhere. 

There are many persons to-day whose intellects are 
entirely superficial. 

It is what you understand that is, practically, the 
reality so far as you are concerned. 

The Book of Nature is open to every one who is 
willing to read it. Every one who is in the position to 

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discover the truth, discovers it. No one can withhold 
from any one knowledge, when his condition fits him 
to receive it. 

As the intellect expands, the universe becomes 
larger — seen through the expanding intellect. We 
do not bring new things into the universe, but we see 
things in a new way. There are multitudes of new 
things — from the standpoint of man's knowledge. 

The spiritual method of arriving at knowledge is 
the very reverse of the material method. 

The atmosphere holds everything that we want to 
know. 

There are no secrets in the universe ; every one can 
draw whatever he pleases, after he has learned the 
way. 

There are no questionings of the human mind that 
are impertinent. 

If God has any secrets which he doesn't desire to re- 
veal to his children, then he does not endow his chil- 
dren with the desire to penetrate them. Where wrong 
comes in is stated in Genesis: The man and woman 
partook of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of 
good and evil. So far as they partook of the good, so 
much the better for them ; so far as they partook of the 
evil, so much the worse. Their motive was a mixed 
one when they sought knowledge. 

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Everything in this universe is open, unsealed. God 
has placed a veil over nothing. God is willing that 
every one should read the Book of Nature through 
and through, and come into the secret of creation it- 
self. "Understandest thou what thou readest?" 

Things are vastly more than they seem. 

All our mistakes come from false conjecture; we 
conjecture something beyond what is evidenced to us. 
When our senses do not tell us enough, our conjec- 
tures and speculations produce false beliefs, which 
continue to hold us until apprehension of truth de- 
stroys them. 

Nature never picks out any of her stitches ! Never 
repents! Man's knowledge of the universe is pro- 
gressive. Man makes mistakes; therefore, man has 
to alter his own work. Man's belief concerning the 
law changes; knowledge never changes. Knowledge 
increases ; belief changes. Belief may be false ; there- 
fore, belief changes ; but knowledge cannot change. 

Man is neither omnipotent nor omniscent. There 
is no one altogether perfect except the Eternal Being, 
because no one but the Infinite can be perfect in 
knowledge; and it would be necessary to possess all 
knowledge in order to always do right. There is al- 
ways the possibility of error as long as there is more 
for us to learn. 

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Nakedness signifies without experience. We are 
not desirous of going back again to any state of in- 
fancy which we have left. We cannot have innocence 
without ignorance, but we can have purity without 
ignorance. Innocence is the earliest, childlike state 
of ignorance. The pure in heart see God; but the 
merely innocent hear the Divine Voice, as it were from 
afar. As our ears unclose, the Divine Voice sounds 
nearer and nearer to us. 

If our experiences were all equal, our knowledge 
would be equal, our power would be equal ; knowledge 
gives power. With every fresh experience we gain 
knowledge; with every increase of strength we gain 
more freedom. 

Our dead selves may be used as stepping-stones to 
higher development. We can look back and say, "I 
did make mistakes, but I am wise enough now to keep 
out of the trap." Many say, "If I could only live 
my life over again, how differently I would act." 
You will live your life over again — and act different- 
ly. You will be placed in different positions, where 
you will have the opportunities you wish. 

Education is the unfolding of a faculty from within. 
Surroundings or environments have a part to play in 
education— the same as the elements have a part to 
perform in the development of a seed. A great deal 

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can be done to hasten the process of gestation. You 
may improve the wild rose. You can, by education, 
develop more and more conscience, more and more 
reason, and perceive more and more of the Divine 
Light. 

We frequently make mistakes (commonly called 
sins) because we are ignorant. When we take this 
ground, we have no difficulty in harmonizing apparent 
inconsistencies between desire and conduct. 

Every truth is apprehended morally and mentally; 
those whose spiritual development is equal will appre- 
hend the same truths in the same way, no matter how 
far apart they may be physically. 

The knowledge of truth is universal and profound. 
We acquaint ourselves with facts according to our en- 
vironments. The two opposing elements in education 
are tuition and intuition; tuition reveals facts, intui- 
tion reveals truths. Whatever relates to universal 
order or cosmic harmony, can be learned without 
books. 

We are now looking forward to the time when 
knowledge shall become universal. Man's power ex- 
tends — in harmony with law — vastly beyond what is 
ordinarily supposed. 

The gift of wisdom is the gift of penetration; the 
gift of knowledge is that which enables people to pick 

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up bits of information here and there ; people who have 
it are versatile. The one who has the gift of knowl- 
edge is only an assistant to one who has the gift of 
wisdom. 

One having wisdom is able to arrive at conclusions 
by intuition, to penetrate to the very root of a matter 
— not necessarily learned, wise by intuition. Wisdom 
and knowledge are not synonymous terms. Knowl- 
edge may be the result of a good, retentive memory; 
wisdom is gained by direct spiritual perception, an in- 
terior perception able to lay hold of direct spiritual 
illumination. 

There are two classes of teachers in the world to- 
day : rationalists and intuitionalists. 

REFLECTION. 

The "Philosopher's stone" means wisdom. It is 
the knowledge of the law. 

Belief is voluntary. One can hold in thought or 
belief whatever one pleases, in regard to anything or 
anybody. Belief and knowledge are not the same. 
If we absolutely know anything, that is more than 
belief. Wherever there is knowledge or demonstra- 
tion, there is no further need for belief at all. 

MOTTO. 

The human soul attains through effort. 
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MEDITATION. 

On every plane man can learn more and more. We 
are never called upon to shift our basis, but should be 
open to every phase of knowledge. Develop broadly 
— on different planes. If we only believe a thing, 
our belief may change at any time ; but our knowledge 
is forever. 



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CAUSE AND EFFECT. 

Everything — no matter how great or how small in 
man's opinion — is the result of law. Man is the ex- 
pression of the law. We are not creatures — not ser- 
vants — but children of God. 

It is impossible to do anything outside of universal 
law. 

Many do not know the difference between what 
makes for satisfaction, and what makes for dissatis- 
faction. 

As long as people live on a low plane of morality, 
they will have all the ills that arise from sensuality, 
from worry, from all irregularities. 

For every effect there must be a sufficient cause. 
We do not call every cause a reason. 

We should not say that all persons who appear ill 
are suffering the results of sin in the theological sense, 
though all sick people are sinners in the philosophical 
sense. A mistake has been made by some one, and the 
result has brought about a condition which is a pen- 
alty, though not in the punitive sense. There is no 
punishment for error, but there must be a penalty. 

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If people admit that all the suffering and sorrow in 
the world is the result of God's anger, they can never 
hope to avert it, unless by some miracle. 

The statement, "Whatever is is right" should be, 
"Whatever must be is right" — whatever is in the law 
of necessity, the unchangeable effect of the unchange- 
able cause. An unchangeable cause must produce an 
unchangeable effect. We must aspire in order to 
inspire. 

People would never suffer if they never needed to 
suffer — if they never brought suffering upon them- 
selves. We do not overcome pain and suffering sim- 
ply by denying its existence. All disorder is mental ; 
the physical effect is only the result of a mental cause. 
No one can alter the relation between cause and effect. 

Every thought produces a decided effect upon the 
thinker; and not only does it produce an effect upon 
the thinker, but also upon all those who yield to its in- 
fluence consciously or unconsciously. 

We do not advocate dealing arbitrarily with indi- 
vidual cases. There is one Universal Law, which can 
be expounded for all mankind. Every one can be 
well — can be happy — can be successful. The law is 
absolutely universal. There is no reason,, though un- 
doubtedly a cause for people being ill, unhappy, or in 
any way distressed. 

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We teach most positively that every one is held in 
bondage to the law he makes for his own government. 
Laws will never relax their hold until the framers of 
the laws give them up. You bind yourself by your 
own laws. What we need to realize is, that all laws 
which can be broken, had better be broken; the only 
law which cannot be broken is the Law of the Uni- 
verse. To break divine law is the onty thing you can- 
not do. If you have a headache it is not because you 
have broken the law, but because you cannot break a 
law of Nature. Nobody ever breaks the law, because 
the law cannot be broken. The relation between 
cause and effect is unchangeable. 

There is no such thing as accident; everything is 
traceable to cause and effect. 

We do not admit physical causation, any more than 
the Christian Scientists do. We admit physical ef- 
fects, but we do not allow that the body is its own 
cause. We do not admit that a pathological condi- 
tion is the result of physical causation. All causation 
is mental. There is no physical causation, but there 
are physical effects. 

There is always a mental cause back of the effect. 
What is cause? The mental habit, the tendency, the 
disposition of the mind ; these are to be healed. What 



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people commonly call disease in the body, we call the 
effect of disease in the thought. 

The world is in hysterics. Why? Because of the 
false standards of justice and morality prevailing 
everywhere. 

A sensation is an effect, and necessarily of some- 
thing back of it which produces it. 

Be moderate in all things! Whatever is natural 
and spontaneous gives satisfaction. There should be 
no satiety, but continual satisfaction, on the lower 
plane ; till that which is higher and comes later, trans- 
fers desire to another region in consciousness. 

We are often too ignorant to know the relation be- 
tween causes and their effects; therefore we are sur- 
prised at our experiences and find them for a while in- 
comprehensible. 

There is no special Providence, but there is a univ- 
versal Divine Providence. The one Divine Law reg- 
ulates all things, from stars to smallest atoms. The 
same law governs in the least as in the greatest. 

Nothing in the universe transpires except in ac- 
cordance with a fixed law. Divine operation contin- 
ues through the operation of natural law. God could 
not change the law of the universe without changing 
himself. The law is the expression of the law-giver. 

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The effect cannot be unlike the cause; unchangeable 
cause produces unchangeable effect. All human or- 
dinances are subject to change; not only to progress, 
but to alteration. When we know a thing, we know 
it forever. The opportunity for progress is in the 
natural, inevitable order of things. The element of 
change— alteration — proves that man not only knows 
too little, not only knows now far less than he will 
know, but makes mistakes and blunders. He does 
work that he will have to undo, because he often works 
blindly. 

We often have to pay the penalty, in our own per- 
sons, of what we call others to account for. 

Neurasthenia — the gradual wasting away of the 
nervous tissue — is the popular ailment of the present 
age. Hysteria is just as common with men as with 
women. Neurasthenia does not appertain to one sex 
more than another, nor to one age more than another, 
it is to be found in all periods of life, and in all oc- 
cupations. 

These ailments — hysteria, neurasthenia, impairing 
and general wasting away of tissue— are not due to 
over- work; they are only due to worry. A great 
many people are over-worried, not over-worked. The 
antidotes to all these disorders are purely mental. 



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Cause and Effect 

If you do, in a normal condition, as much work as it 
is right for you to do, you will fall asleep, and sleep as 
long as it is good for you to sleep. 

Worry is nothing but hysteria ! We destroy brain 
tissue by worrying. 

We never knew a strong person who was always in 
a hurry, and we never knew a successful person who 
was always in a hurry; people whose experiences are 
like a see-saw are mentally unbalanced. 

Watches are usually too fast when in the pockets 
of hysterical people. 

In consequence of certain things being as they are, 
certain results will follow. Change the cause ; trouble 
yourself not with the effect, and the effect will take 
care of itself. 

AFFIRMATION. 

There are no accidents. Nothing ever occurs by 
chance. There must be a sufficient cause for every 
effect. Everything takes place according to law. 

MEDITATION. 

Not only oil, but soapsuds, will calm the troubled 
sea. We can increasingly discover the Law of the 
Universe, though none can change its immutable de- 
crees. One element neutralizes the rage of another. 
The way of discovery is open to every individual. 

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MEDITATION. 



The irritability of the human invalid and of weak 
little dogs is proverbial. The strongest men and also 
animals are always good-natured. But turn to some 
one of rather less than average intelligence or 
strength, and you will find a person who resembles a 
little snapping cur, instead of a noble, powerful mas- 
tiff. Little creatures who feel their absence of power, 
but would like to assume a power they do not possess, 
are like little barking, snapping dogs contrasted with 
the finest canines. 



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LIMITATION. 

Deny all limitations; there are no limitations, per 
se. Unless we take this ground, we shall never suc- 
ceed in our effort for health on any plane, in any 
direction. 

When we get beyond all sense of limitation, we can 
have just as much as we desire to attract. There is a 
universal supply. Nature is so bountiful that all can 
have as much as they can hold. 

You wish to overcome a limitation — then you will 
to actualize the very opposite of what you are now 
doing. You must let your will work quietly, and 
bring your recognition into harmony with your will 
by acknowledging your ability to accomplish whatso- 
ever you desire. 

While our goal is to be entirely superior to circum- 
stances, we are not entirely superior to them until we 
have grown to a highly developed state. We can 
grow to absolute control over circumstances. This is 
not yet generally attained ; it is the ideal. 

To be able to control all circumstances is an evi- 
dence of very high moral development. One not so 
highly developed will succumb occasionally. 

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When you depend for happiness upon anything, 
you make it a necessity. As you make it a necessity, 
so it is necessary to you. The person who says he 
cannot do without this or that, allows it to become a 
necessity to him. You say you cannot get any infor- 
mation except from books ; very well, you have made 
that a law. "According to thy word, be it unto thee." 
If we did not make laws for our own bondage, we 
could get all needed knowledge psychically. It is 
just so with every limitation under which we groan. 
We have made the limits, and now we must break 
away from our limitations. 

We maintain that all those limitations which people 
make for themselves are entirely unnecessary, and 
should be overcome. The mistake is in thinking that 
they can only get the blessings they desire through a 
prescribed media. People must realize that accord- 
ing to their word, it is unto them. The ministration 
of second causes is not to be denied; effects are pro- 
duced through many agencies; the power of external 
suggestion is not to be denied — up to a certain point 
— but the sooner we grow above this the better. 

Everything that is external keeps you in a certain 
groove; and as long as you are in a groove you can 
never attain true development. If you will be bold 
enough to step out of all ruts, whatever you need will 
come to you. Develop! 

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Limitation 

There are virtuous people so stale and monotonous 
that they rise to a certain height, and never go above 
it ; you know you will never have a surprise from them. 
But take a person who is in any sense outside the ordi- 
nary limit — you never know what is coming; there is 
something pleasurable in that kind of uncertainty, for 
it savors of progression. 

If you are going to place a limit anywhere, you are 
not open to a revelation from the universal Spirit of 
Truth — if there is any line beyond which you may not 
pass. Just as long as you say "Of course, there's a 
limit," you are limited by that thought; and you can- 
not go out into any larger and higher thing as long as 
your own word confines you to that smaller thing. 

The age of man should be at least one hundred and 
twenty years. It takes about twenty years for the 
human animal to reach maturity, and he should live, 
after that, five times as long as the period taken to 
mature. This is the least we have reason to expect; 
the greater duration of man's terrestrial existence 
when he has transcended the animal within him is 
illimitable. 

REFLECTION. 

The word "only" should be struck out of our vocab- 
ulary; it signifies limitation. We find ourselves at 
war with all limitation immediately we place confi- 
dence in Omnipotent Spirit. 

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SERVILITY. 

The weaker people are, the more easily they can be 
influenced in any direction. 

It is intellectual laziness and servility that lead to 
so many of the ailments of the present time. It is 
the combination of servility and laziness that produces 
all the ailments extant; we may add one other cause, 
anger. To get rid of all these, we must get rid of all 
limitations ; to get rid of all anger, get rid of all fear, 
get rid of all laziness, get rid of all mental as well as 
physical servility. Fears manifest themselves in dis- 
order. Anger, fear, servility, laziness — four demons. 

When we have got rid of these four, we have be- 
come well. We can then read Nature's book without 
a hindrance. 

It is the right and privilege of every person to be 
healthy, and it is equally the privilege of every person 
to be free. How many free people are there to-day? 
How can we expect health in captivity? 

Belief hampers many people to such an extent that 
they are bedridden, because they believe in that condi- 
tion. Their thoughts are so crippled that they have 
not liberty to move their bodies. 

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Servility • 

The majority of people to-day cannot account for 
their diseases, for the reason that they take upon them- 
selves the conditions of people around them; and this 
is because of their mental servility. 

Every blind following of a fashion or custom means 
vastly more to the mental scientist than it does to the 
physicist. The mental condition of which such an act 
is an expression matters greatly. We do not mean, as 
metaphysicians, exactly what we say, when we object 
to the wearing of a certain hat ; but the mental condi- 
tion, of which the hat is the expression, is what we care 
about. It is not the articles of clothing, but the men- 
tal servility which makes such clothing worn which 
can hold people in bondage. 

The person who wears anything he doesn't like be- 
comes ill through the mental condition which caused 
him to wear it. 

When people do not dare to live up to their own 
honest convictions, they break the first commandment 
of the Decalogue. 

We must not wear intellectual corsets and tight 
shoes, if we wish to become psychically liberated. 

Many women permit themselves to become psy- 
chologized by their husbands. No one need be in 
any kind of bondage to another. The moment the 

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soul asserts its own freedom, it need never be under 
the control of any one — in heaven or earth — No one 
is free until he is self -emancipated. 

REFLECTION. 

If we are in free thought, we shall enjoy free breath. 
All disorders, such as bronchial troubles, proceed 
from some bondage in thought. 



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INDIVIDUALITY. 

Our individuality expresses itself through our per- 
sonality. 

You are the same individual,, but you are not the 
same person that you were a year ago. We are new 
people in old situations. 

The people with whom we associate — why should 
we expect them to be the same in the new year as 
they were in the old? They have undergone neces- 
sary experiences; they are not the same people; they 
are what they were then, plus what they have gained. 
Do not feel that you have to deal with the same old 
people, in the same old way. 

We overcome personal limitation by discovering 
our spiritual individuality. 

The personal man comes from the dust of the 
ground. The Lord God is the spiritual man. The 
personal man is the copy of the individual man. We 
body forth our desires. The process of embodying is 
the process of showing forth what is contained in the 
original. Individualization is absolutely necessary in 
the copy. 



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Physical attitudes are results of mental attitudes. 
People's voices show their mental conditions. One's 
movements show individuality — or the lack of it. 

The question often arises, "How is it that so many 
seemingly good people are not well?" Until we have 
become individualized — have obtained control of all 
our hidden chambers — we cannot be free; therefore 
we cannot be well at all times, for we lack the requis- 
ite understanding. 

People who are simply agnostic, or sceptical, are 
shallow ; they may be perfectly sincere, but never pro- 
found. 

The materialist is a simpleton, though he may be 
quite sincere. 

The trouble is in our not thinking rightly of our- 
selves and others; we are not sufficiently independent 
and individualized. That false humility which makes 
us think others better than ourselves is as detestable 
in the light of science as the stupid pride which is the 
other extreme. 

What is needed to-day is an adventurous soul that 
will break the bonds of all conventionality. 

Perfect individualization is necessary to the highest 
morality as well as health. There is no morality in 

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injustice; where there is no justice, there is no 
morality. 

It is the woman who has to do with the little infant. 
The great thing for woman to do to-day is to hold 
herself in respect, in the silence, as well as in the 
spoken word. Woman's power psychically is far 
greater than her power physically. 

Woman holds an enormous spiritual power, of 
which she is for the most part unaware. 

When people are tempted and tried, what does it 
mean? It means that they are upon their metal. 
They are being tested. Thus, character is developed. 
If you could always see the Divine countenance, then 
you would be less than a hero. Stand upon your own 
metal, and reach the point where conscience becomes 
an infallible guide. Everything that puts people 
upon their own footing is of the utmost value to them. 

Every individual must come into a conscious 
knowledge of how to regulate his own life. As long 
as we depend upon other people, we do not decide for 
ourselves, therefore we cannot become individualized. 

Man must dominate the earth as represented with- 
in himself, before he can dominate the earth around 
him. Man can rise entirely superior to all the lower 
influences around him, but only by first gaining the 
needed victory within his own economy. 

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We are capable of unfolding the Divine within us, 
because we have it to unfold. Man is a spiritual en- 
tity here and now. Man's body is his own; he claims 
the right of ownership. Is it right for the master — 
the spirit — to control the flesh? or, is it right for the 
flesh to dominate the spirit? 

It is our individuality that needs to be recognized. 
To do this is where people fail so lamentably. 

The greater the manifestation of life, the nobler the 
form appears. 

It is absolutely necessary to have a form as a means 
of expression on any plane. When we no longer 
have the physical body, we shall sustain the psychical 
body — in its own way. We can only build up the 
physical body in a psychical way. 

This physical body must be perfected before we 
exchange it for a higher body. 

To have a body that would serve the spirit perfect- 
ly, would be to have a body volatile — a body that 
would come and go at will — not a body of bones and 
sinews, flesh and blood. 

The psychic body can be made perfectly tractable 
— becoming visible and invisible, at will — A body en- 
tirely under the control of the will of its owner can 
be materialized or dematerialized at its owner's pleas- 
ure. 

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Individuality 

The difference between one form of life and an- 
other is that one expresses more life than another. 
It is only a question of the lesser and the greater that 
decides the value of expression. 

Every one who believes in an angry God worships 
not the Divinity within him, but the animality. 

What people call rebellion against God is really a 
phase in the development of their lives. All the 
records of the fall of man and God's consequent an- 
ger are falsely interpreted, owing to our ignorance. 
God has always been looking on man with perfect 
complaisance, satisfied with his own work. 

Lucifer, according to Milton's "Paradise Lost," 
says, "I had rather rule in Hell than serve in 
Heaven"; and the opportunity was given him. The 
fall of Lucifer represents the human soul falling into 
the kingdom of materiality, developing its own self- 
consciousness, and determining to reign in its own 
kingdom. We do not believe that man ever fell in a 
manner to offend God. 

Man, before the fall, according to the spiritual 
theory, lived in a natal paradise. The soul, in that 
primeval paradise, was perfectly conscious, but not 
self-conscious; we must discriminate between con- 
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self -consciousness to consciousness, self -consciousness 
is a desirable acquisition; the simple consciousness re- 
mains, but the self-consciousness being added, we are 
not content to know that we are alive, but ask why we 
live, and what we are living for. 

The account of Jesus putting the little child in the 
midst of the people illustrates this. The child is an 
interrogation-point, a query. The child is deter- 
mined to develop self-consciousness. 

The little child is a symbol of the individual first 
awakening to self-consciousness. 

INTERROGATION. 

Our individuality persists now, in spite of all the 
changes of the body. Why should it be destroyed 
when we lay off this body? 

MOTTO. 

Character is something one has to develop within 
himself. A reputation may be bought; a character 
must be earned. 

MEDITATION. 

If you are worthy of a recommendation, you do not 
need one ; if you want one you are not worth it. 

MOTTO. 

One cannot make a decided impression when he 
himself is undecided. 

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MENTAL HEALING. 

Metaphysical means beyond the physical. There 
could not be a metaphysical if there were no physical. 
There must be a physical to admit of a metaphysical. 

He is a metaphysician who goes all the way the 
physicist may go, and then transcends this limit. 

What is mental healing? Mental healing is ac- 
complished educationally. You can overcome what- 
ever you will to overcome; there are no limitations 
that can hold you any longer than you are passive to 
be held by them. It is not the will of the people that 
we have to change in metaphysical healing, so much 
as to enlarge their understanding. Just so long as 
people believe that they have to be unfortunate, they 
will not succeed. There must be co-operation of the 
will with the understanding. A very necessary men- 
tal attitude to take when giving a treatment is, that 
unless you admit that you have the power to do any- 
thing, you cannot do it. In giving a mental treat- 
ment, you must admit that your patient has both the 
will and the power to express the state he desires to 
manifest. 

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to the intellect. Come to realize that all good will 
can be called into effect. 

All pathological conditions are abnormal. We 
allow no place for unhappiness, no place for failure; 
these are abortions, not necessary to the complete 
work of Nature. No one need be ill, no one need be 
unhappy, no one need fail; there need be no disorder 
in the world ; these are entirely unnecessary. 

Society is a sick man, and you have to treat society 
— just as you would an individual. How shall you 
prescribe for it? 

You must take people as you find them ; but do not 
leave them as you found them. Your influence must 
be to lift the world to a state that it was not in when 
you found it. 

One who has more than ordinary access to the un- 
seen realm can help others — on their own plane; and 
then, just as you take your children and educate 
them, you take grown people along. Make any 
present "craze" or "fad" — if people choose to call it 
so — a means of taking people along acknowledged 
paths to something higher — to the discovery of the 
soul. 

The true idea of mental healing is that one can 
help another into similar harmonious relation with 
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Mental Healing 

A great many things are spoken of in the plural; 
but the intelligent mental healer is one who endeav- 
ors to bring everything to a point of unity. There 
are many expressions of one universal and entire in- 
terest. Human nature is in all respects a unit; all 
the interests of mankind are positively one. 

The word "healing" means, properly, "making 
whole." 

We meet many people who were born feeble, both 
physically and mentally. When metaphysical heal- 
ing was first presented to the public, we heard much 
of people applying to be cured of various complaints 
and diseases; and they talked about "mind cure." 
Mind cure might mean the healing of the mind when 
feeble. But metaphysical healing includes every 
branch of therapeutic practice; there is no possible 
ailment, or lack of health, which it does not under- 
take to cure or supply, as the case may be. It rests 
upon only one basis, man's ability to rise above every 
conceivable limitation. 

Every treatment that you give, that is given wisely 
and well, is in recognition of a state not yet attained, 
but which can be attained — and the more easily with 
your aid. 

All negative processes — all processes that aim sim- 
ply at eviction of disorder — are on the wrong side. 



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The true metaphysical healer does not undertake to 
fight disease. As we claim that the condition of the 
flesh is due to the condition of the blood, and the con- 
dition of the blood is due to the condition of the 
thought, it follows that if the thought be pure, the 
blood will be pure and ultimately the flesh likewise. 

It is affirmed by many talented physicians that all 
disorders proceed from derangement of the lymph or 
the blood. 

People cannot avail themselves of the benefit ex- 
pected from outward conditions unless in a mental 
condition to receive benefit. 

Send out a thought which will place before the 
mental eye of the student or patient a state which 
expresses what you and he alike wish to see expressed. 

We do not apply mental healing to physical dis- 
ease, but to the mental disease which produces the 
physical effect. No intelligent mental healer ever at- 
tempts to treat people's bodies with his mind, but to 
instruct them by a mental process in the science of so 
thinking that their bodies must express outwardly the 
harmony which is within. 

We cannot successfully treat any part of the body 
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Our contention has always been against specialism 
in metaphysical treatment, because every part of the 
body is related vitally with the whole. No matter 
what the malady, you must deal with the human or- 
ganism as a whole. No one can intelligently deal 
with any part of the body without dealing with the 
whole organism of which the organ is a part. 

Do not treat, in any sense whatever, with a disease; 
never deal with an eye, or an ear, or an organ, as a 
part; but with the whole system, which includes the 
seat of the abnormal function. 

There is no occasion for any quarrel between physi- 
cians and metaphysicians; the one is dealing with a 
physical, the other with a mental condition. While 
the metaphysician is dealing with our thoughts, the 
physician is dealing with our physical systems. 

There is not anything like the fanaticism in the 
medical profession that is supposed to exist. Many 
in it are acting in accordance with their best light. 

The regular physicians — many of them — are thor- 
ough metaphysicians; a great many of them are true 
psychical healers. 

In metaphysics, the apparent evil is not called a 
disease, but the result, the effect of a disease — mental ; 
in physics, it is called a disease. 

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We deny that any disease is physical, but we do not 
deny the physical effects of disease. We say that dis- 
cord is mental; all disease is mental. But just as you 
might say, from a physical standpoint, that the dis- 
ease is physical and produces mental effects, we say 
that disease is mental and produces physical effects. 

One tumor may be removed; then another forms, 
another, and still another. Why? Because the 
method of cure is entirely false ; the reasoning is false ; 
the disease is mental, and the tumor is its consequence, 
if you remove that physical effect or consequence, you 
are not destroying the disease, any more than you are 
destroying the hair by shaving. As long as the root 
remains — which is the mental condition of the patient 
— so long the liability or susceptibility remains ; there 
is, therefore, no guarantee or security of any sort that 
there will not be a relapse, and that the last state of 
that patient may not be worse than the first. 

We should not undertake to cure by attacking dis- 
ease. Never oppose any disorder as such, but under- 
take to invigorate the system, so as to effect a har- 
mony that will expel the fruits of any disorder al- 
ready in the system. 

Let us consider the utter fallacy of seeking to turn 
out a disease. If you undertake to fight a disease, 
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one devil out ; and, as in the case of the event recorded 
in the Bible, into the man out of whom one devil was 
driven, seven others entered, so that the last state of 
that man was worse than the first, so many other 
devils — or diseases — come in to take the place of those 
expelled. The vacuum left by turning out one devil 
opens the way for more to enter. 

The true spiritual scientist is not chiefly interested 
in mere recovery or restitution, but in helping on- 
ward the individual treated to a higher plane than he 
had ever previously reached. 

As we develop on to higher planes, we cannot be 
susceptible to disorders as we were on lower planes. 

Quite a few mental healers do a great deal of in- 
jury, both to themselves and their patients, by false 
beliefs of their own. 

The cause of our illness may be our false belief in 
regard to the thoughts of people around us toward 
ourselves. 

If you have any ill-feeling toward any one, you 
deserve to be ill. 

You cannot enter into heavenly societies when you 
are out of love to your neighbor. If there is any 
hatred in your heart toward any being, you will be 
ill — and you need the illness. 

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There are two distinct factors in healing: first, the 
knowledge of what to do; second, the doing of what 
is necessary to be done. 

If we have not clear knowledge, it is hit or miss 
with us ; sometimes we succeed, and sometimes we fail. 

What has produced a cure in days of old will al- 
ways produce a cure in days to come. 

The word and faith cured people of old, and the 
same word with faith cures people now. "According 
to thy word be it unto thee" holds good still. But 
the people have walked in ignorance, regardless of the 
power displayed in the undeviating working of Na- 
ture's law. 

We must look for the common ground of healing 
methods; underneath all superstructures there is the 
same foundation; that foundation is, that there is a 
law of health in the universe; and when the way is 
opened, vital power will rush in. 

A great many people would rather pay a large bill 
for the privilege of swallowing medicine, than a small 
bill for instruction. This is intellectual laziness. 

There is no more disgusting work than trying to 
probe out disease. The worst work ever done by 
mental healers is trying to diagnose sickness. It is a 
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methods are spiritual or metaphysical. What people 
call disease is an effect or result of disease. If peo- 
ple say their eyes are dim, that is not a disease; it is 
the expression of a mental state of dimness. We 
should not care to know what people commonly call 
disease, because what they call disease is only the ef- 
fect of disease. We care far more for the physician 
who tells us how to get out of difficulty than for the 
one who diagnoses the disease. 

A good Chinese idea of the province of a doctor is 
to pay him while the people are well, instead of when 
ill. The true mission of the doctor should be to keep 
people well, not chiefly to cure them when sick. 

All the best teachers to-day, who are undertaking 
to heal the sick, are steering clear of the old saying 
that people are not suffering pain. They admit that 
pains and sufferings exist, but claim that they are 
only temporal and they are remedial. Just as soon 
as we discover the law, and obey all its precepts, we 
shall suffer not one more twinge of pain — not one 
more pang of sorrow. 

Our senses are not false witnesses when normal, but 
they testify inadequately. We treat our senses as we 
would witnesses on the stand; some can throw but 
little light on the matter, others have more important 
testimony to offer. We have to employ our intel- 



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lect — our reason — to help out the testimony of the 
senses. We hold that all the senses of man bring in 
a limited amount of testimony, but the bulk is inade- 
quate. 

A well-ordered life gives the greatest attention to 
the vital organs ; and mental healing will affect lungs 
and heart when it will not touch the hair, because 
treatment goes to the centre of the organism. Hair 
is only a covering and an ornament. What is most 
vital and internal builds up first, and then the spare 
force goes to the integuments. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

The spiritual gift of healing is like unto a vase of 
roses — imparting fragrance to the atmosphere of a 
room. 

MEDITATION. 

In mental treatment we can reach the internal or- 
gans long before we can reach the skin, because all 
expression is from within outward. 

The greatest mistake is in thinking to change any- 
thing on the outside; we cannot change things from 
the outside, but must always work from within out- 
ward. 

Do not treat people only, but treat places. Leave 
your best thought everywhere. When you leave 
your helpful thought, you leave a rich blessing. 

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INVERSION. 

The present disordered state of society is shown by 
the language of the people. 

All error and seeming evil should be regarded as 
inversion — like an angel standing on his head; as il- 
lustrated by Swedenborg, in his description of the 
"celestial" and the "infernal" standing feet to feet; 
the celestial standing upright, the infernal showing 
the inversion. All disorders are inversions. 

Things are not good and evil in themselves ; things 
only appear evil when inverted or distorted. Every- 
thing, when known for what it is, is assuredly good. 

As man has within himself the divine element, so 
he has also the element of animality within him; and 
sometimes, he yields to the temptation of the lower, 
which endeavors to dominate the higher; then he ex- 
periences evil. When he gives place to the highest 
within him, he knows only good. Very seldom do we 
strike the golden chord of love to all mankind. At 
one time, we are extremely altruistic; at another, in- 
tensely egotistic. We are thus always contending 
between emotions ; we are between two fires, listening 
to two voices. We hear the voice of God, and the 

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voice of the serpent. When we try to obey the two, 
we produce confusion. 

"Man shall not live by bread alone!" To merely 
gratify the animal propensities is to live a starved 
life. When the soul is starved, the body gets starved. 
Unfed conditions of the soul produce wasting dis- 
eases, nervous debility, anaemia. The only way to 
conquer all this is to realize that the soul gets hun- 
gry; the soul calls out for its dinner. You are feed- 
ing your bodies all the time and often starving your 
souls. When we come into harmony, we feed the 
soul, and thus allow the soul its fair opportunity to 
regulate the body. 

A great many people honestly entertain the fallacy 
that if they were to be thoroughly honest in their 
business dealings, they would have to starve. Star- 
vation or dishonesty is not the alternative. We can 
carry out the Golden Rule in our business and social 
relations, and be splendid social and business suc- 
cesses. We do not say you can become a-several- 
times-millionaire and do it; but you can be in per- 
fectly comfortable circumstances. 

It is not what a person believes, or what a person 
intellectually adheres to or perceives, but whether the 
mental window is open or closed. Health is the nor- 
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being a rare acquisition, or very hard to maintain, we 
find that animals — except in captivity — enjoy per- 
fect health. An animal in captivity is in an abnor- 
mal state, and hence, subject to illnesses unknown in 
the natural state. We find birds ill, in cages ; but we 
have no reason for inferring that the same birds 
would be subject to such ailments if free, in their 
natural condition. 

Natural instinct belongs to man as well as to ani- 
mals; if we did not deny our normal instincts, we 
would be well. 

The health of civilized communities is vastly lower 
than it is in savage states. But the theory that the 
more highly intellectual people become, the poorer 
their health, is to be denied, except as methods of 
culture may be artificial and unnatural. If every 
faculty of mind and body is strained to the utmost, if 
nearly all the measures resorted to are abnormal, it 
is not physiology, it is pathology that is accountable 
for an enfeebled condition. 

Education is conducive to health and strength. 
Health is the normal play of all the faculties, and 
education is a delightful stimulus to all the organism. 

The natural, normal life, is a life where everything 
is beautiful. So far as beauty is concerned, it is a 

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means of grace. Beautiful form and beautiful color 
may be regarded as steps toward Heaven — Heaven 
is altogether beautiful. There is nothing conducive 
to spiritual growth in wearing ugly clothing, or in 
being plain and unattractive, or in living upon poor 
food. 

Anything obtained without doing any injury to 
others is perfectly right — speaking of the accumula- 
tion of property. We do not for one moment believe 
that it is wrong to appropriate the beauties of the 
earth ; the error is in placing them in a false position. 

MOTTO. 

Never dissociate the secular from the sacred. 
Sanctify the secular, but do not desecrate the sacred. 
In order to be spiritual we do not have to give up 
anything; but we do have to fit the conduct of life 
to the truth. 

MEDITATION. 

You cannot have too much of a good thing. Only 
a thing that is itself an inversion creates an abnormal 
craving. That is the rule in all spiritual, artistic, 
musical and other desirable pursuits. 

REFLECTION. 

There must be a place for everything, and every- 
thing must be in its right place — for perfect harmony. 



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Inversion 

When a thing is not in its own place it is evil in ap- 
pearance — not in reality. Disorder is an inversion. 
There is no unhappiness, no pain, that is not due to 
inversion. The cure for ignorance is always more 
knowledge. 

There is a divinity in things seemingly evil. Evil 
is a question of undue proportion. We shall under- 
stand this when we learn that evil is not real hut is 
simply disorder. 



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LIBERALISM. 

There is a central spiritual philosophy upon which 
all the religions in the world rest. 

People mistake fractions for the whole; that is the 
cause of all the discord in regard to the different 
schools of science. All sciences are fractional ex- 
pressions of one Universal Science. The fractional 
statements which we continually hear may be resolved 
into one, by concentration upon the idea of Universal 
Truth. 

One of the most pitiable sights in the world is that 
of people trying to find wherein they disagree, in- 
stead of trying to find their points of cantact. Hu- 
manity would be saved if every one would only give 
up his label or his tag. 

Whatever makes for harmony makes for health. 
As long as we have any prejudices or antipathies, we 
shall be ill. We cannot be well until these are done 
away with. 

We should do away with the word "toleration" and 
take instead the word "appreciation"; thus, instead 
of tolerating our neighbors, we should come to ap- 
preciate them. 

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We must attribute to no one a motive that we 
would not like to have applied to ourselves. People 
make many mistakes and blunders, no matter how 
honest. And we must take the very same ground in 
correcting one class of ailments that we would in cor- 
recting any other error. 

We should be glad to have our mistakes pointed 
out to us, so that we can correct them ; but no one has 
the right to impute an unworthy motive to any one. 

A spiritual revelation is not to point out an error 
for the sake of exposing it, but to give the people 
something higher in place of it — something they 
could get in no other way. 

Spiritual power has for a long time been sup- 
pressed ; but people to-day, on their own account, are 
going fearlessly to work investigating their own 
nature. 

We have nothing to say to the happy and content- 
ed, except that we are glad there are people in the 
world who are happy and contented. If they are so, 
they are right — on their plane ; they may be in a state 
of materiality ; they are naked and not ashamed — un- 
fallen Adams and Eves. If one is content with his 
present condition, we have nothing to say, except to 
rejoice in his contentment. 

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If you invite a person to go to the Father's house 
before he is ready to go, the invitation lacks every- 
thing of pleasure or profit to his mind. 

We should never try to restrict others by what 
agrees with ourselves. 

We should remain insular, if we held narrowly to 
one creed or cult. Every cult is too small, and every 
creed too narrow. This is well shown in the meta- 
phor of four persons going up the four sides of a 
mountain. All were honest in their convictions, but 
each travelling a separate path had, necessarily, a 
different view; and each claimed that his particular 
view was all there was to be seen. Argument and 
dispute arose among those four short-sighted but per- 
fectly honest people. The gift of seeing the four 
sides of the mountain at one view is only enjoyed by 
one who has reached the top. The one who has had 
this wider experience — standing upon the height — is 
able to look in all the different directions, and to see 
where the various roads lead. 

Criticise not, unless you wish to be criticised. 
When you criticise a song, it is yourself that you 
criticise. One critic interprets one way, another in- 
terprets another way ; they can only tell how it strikes 
them. No one makes any progress in spiritual de- 
velopment until he is perfectly willing to read all re- 

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views, but not to be guided by them. Never allow 
anybody else's mind to act for you to the suppression 
of your own. 

One star (or sun) is of orange hue, another blue, 
another red, and so on; yet all those suns are equally 
beautiful, resplendent, magnificent. So is it with 
flowers — so is it with trees, birds, gems. One differs 
from another in its phase, not necessarily in its de- 
gree of beauty. So, in human society, we find that 
all gifts of the spirit are of equal value, and equally 
interesting — if we know how to employ them aright. 

One who has come into spiritual understanding has 
no favorite flowers. Because you love the roses, 
there is no reason why you should not also love the 
lilies. A larger conception enables us to rejoice in 
all the forms of beauty we behold in the universe. 
They each have their own mission to fulfil, and we 
must know ourselves in relation to all of them alike. 

The greatest teachers have always been super-per- 
sonal and super-systematic. 

The perfection of a man differs from the perfec- 
tion of a woman. There can be perfection in all 
states. Perfection may go along from birth to ma- 
turity, manifesting on rising planes. 

We must stand for universal brotherhood and sis- 
terhood ; there must be no sex qualification anywhere. 

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We maintain that man and woman are the joint ex- 
pressions of the one super-personal God. 

"I take great comfort in God," said Lowell. Peo- 
ple have been taught to fear God in the wrong way. 
There is a great deal of religious hysteria in the world 
to-day. In all ages, there has been established prece- 
dent in the way of all life — in the way of all progress. 
There has always been a very large Cancer in the 
Zodiac, a Crab, whose tendency has been to oppose 
everything new. 

Whatever is asserted is for investigation; all is for 
consideration; no one should accept without question 
the sayings of any person. 

It is not liberality to go down into the dirt because 
your neighbor is down there; remain on the heights 
yourself, and beckon him up. Don't try to get even 
with people, but help them to get even with you ; then 
there will be two of you on the heights, instead of two 
of you in the gutter. 

All truth, all honor, if it is going to do any prac- 
tical good, must go down among the "evil" and res- 
cue them. How can we expect the annihilation of 
evil — the reform of girls and women in all sorts of 
horrible places — when we hold ourselves aloof? There 
is no way to help these girls and women to rise to the 

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ideal of noble womanhood, except by going among 
them and lifting them up. 

If you associate with people on any plane, objec- 
tive or subjective, who are below you in growth and 
moral character, and you turn to them in blessing, in- 
stead of their cursing you, you will do them good; 
and you will never get any harm, as you will never 
do anything but good. 

Learn from the strong ones ; give instruction to the 
less advanced. 

What is a temptation to one is not a temptation to 
another; what is an attraction to one is not so to 
another. 

Put the right kind of temptation in people's way; 
a temptation is not simply something you can com- 
prehend with your bodily senses. 

The best and highest treatment is to put spiritual 
temptation to a nobler state within the reach of every 
one. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

Do not think your altitude is your own special 
property ; it is to enable you to help others. 

MEDITATION. 

Deep down in the nature of every one there is a 
settled conviction that it makes a person worse to call 
him evil, and better to call him good. 

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REFLECTION. 

God's law is only dimly shadowed forth in the pur- 
est human legislation. 

UNIVERSAL STATEMENT. 

God is the parent of all humanity. Woman is as 
much God's image as man is. 



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THE COMING RELIGION. 

The universal religion is the religion of science. 

You may take seven different systems of religion — 
they are all right, like the seven rays of the rainbow, 
the seven tones in the musical scale — each right in its 
own place ; but no one of them can be the scale. 

Every later revelation contains all the truth that 
the older revelation embodied. 

It makes no difference where the body is, Heaven 
is as near to us in one place as another. It is only 
when we come to know what it is to be regardless of 
time, regardless of place — to feel that one point is as 
sacred and near to God as another — that we can real- 
ize the truth. 

No one will be one step nearer Heaven by going to 
Egypt and meditating, as he walks down the "Ave- 
nue of Sphynxes," than by remaining at home and 
realizing that Heaven is in the very locality where his 
present action lies. 



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ALTERNATIVE. 

It is only through the discovery of Universal Law 
that we can know how to fulfil our desires. 

When we are in universals, we are one with God; 
when we are in personals, we are not in harmony with 
God. 

When we come into right relations with the interior 
state, we shall always desire what is best for us. 

We find ourselves, continually, in positions where 
we are obliged to choose between two things, we can 
have one or the other, but we cannot have both. This 
goes on through life — this or that, but not this and 
that. There will often come an opportunity for the 
culture of the spiritual, or the material. If we put 
the spiritual last we shall never secure any spiritual 
development that is worthy of the name. But if we 
say, "I will have the highest!" then we may draw 
from the fountain of Spiritual Truth. The reason 
why we cannot draw more from the spiritual world is 
because we live so much in the external. 

To bring children up not to depend on externals is 
to bring them up to realize themselves as magnets for 
spiritual realities. 

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Alternative 

Those who desire it earnestly, become possessed of 
the deepest secrets of Nature. This knowledge 
comes to us when we give up the love of externals. 
We become qualified for just what we set our 
thoughts upon. If we regard externals as the chief 
good, they will be the only things we can associate 
with; we can keep our places just where we elect to 
put ourselves. 

Man's spiritual power is universal. Without this 
spiritual power we should not be men and women. 
Whatever a seer or prophet has done, some one else 
can do. There is always possibility for further de- 
velopment along the same lines. 

We shall be able, when spiritually developed, to 
regulate ourselves through the law of natural selec- 
tion. All normal, healthy human beings will, 
through this law, select the very things that are best 
for them. 

You are spiritually well and strong; whatever is 
best for you to have, that you will crave. 

Wherever there is a great feeling of need there you 
can always develop power; it is not easy to develop 
power where there is no feeling of necessity. 

The reason why so many people never receive any- 
thing on the psychic plane is because they pay too 
much attention to externals. 

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We can all have whatever we want in this universe. 
Just as we vibrate, we can put ourselves into relation- 
ship with whatever we wish. We can vibrate with it. 
Everything says, "If you seek me with your whole 
heart, you will surely find me" — everything in the 
universe! If you seek the higher spiritual develop- 
ment, you can rise entirely above your present limita- 
tions. Things cannot move you when you have at- 
tained the power to move them. You must either be 
the operator, or you will be the subject — in the affairs 
of your daily life. If you say, "My circumstances 
shall obey me!" you will control them. I never pro- 
pose to get under any circumstance. Whenever a 
circumstance comes up we must realize that we can 
govern it. 

Whenever you approach a summit, you are vibrat- 
ing on a plane much above the ordinary. You have 
to surrender on one plane to operate on another. It 
is a question of choice or alternative. If the internal 
is cultivated, the external is sacrificed. Whenever 
we undertake to give to the higher and take from the 
lower, it is a question of exchange. And this is our 
idea of the true meaning of the word "sacrifice." In 
living a consecrated life the higher nature always 
makes demands upon the lower ; it is consecration, not 
destruction. You do not destroy the body, but let 
the spirit use the body as it will. 

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Alternative 

You will have a good physical body as long as you 
need one ; then, there will be no unwelcome death — no 
disease. Your transition will only be to you a state 
of passage from one plane to another. You over- 
come the fear of death. There will then be no unde- 
sired death, no sickness. You are at once prefectly 
at home in the spiritual world — no sense of bereave- 
ment is possible to those who live now and always in 
the realization of omnipresent life in spirit. 

GOLDEN MOTTOES. 

Things cannot move you when you have attained 
the power to move them. 

Man is the arbiter of his own fate. 

The idea is a true and important one, that man 
makes his own paradise, or his own sheol, here and 
hereafter. 

We do not have to be unsuccessful. We get what 
we invite, and nothing else. 

Human will ought not to be considered as some- 
thing to be contested; the essential will is all right, 
always. 



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CHASTENING. 

The word "chasten" means to cleanse. The world 
is undergoing house-cleaning. We can well imagine 
angels going about on earth with scrubbing-brushes 
and pails and soapsuds, — and even raising clouds of 
dust while sweeping. 

If Adam and Eve did fall, it was not our fault ; why 
should we be made to suffer? There is no divinity 
where there is no equity. Punishment is an arbitrary 
word that should fall into disuse. Chastisement 
means purification; correction means setting straight 
that which is crooked. The reformation of the fallen, 
the protection of society — of all human interests — 
that is always humane and wise. The improvement 
of society — the betterment of human conditions, 
through correction of the offender — this is exceeding- 
ly salutary ; all may unite upon this reasonable basis. 

In the fifty-first Psalm, original sin is recognized. 
This Psalm, whether written by King David, or some 
one else, was written by one who was conscious of the 
results of wrong-doing. The man endeavors to ac- 
count for his sinful tendencies, and also tries to ease 
his conscience — smarting under a consciousness of 
wrong. This is not at all unnatural, and not alto- 

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gether unjustifiable — the desire to get rid of a little 
of the responsibility of the wrong-doing, seeking to 
excuse one's self. This Psalm shows the inevitable 
results of the doing of a wrong; it is more explana- 
tory than profoundly philosophical. It is to be re- 
garded as something of a mirror, in which one can see 
one's self. People can look at themselves, in the light 
of literature, and see the relation between cause and 
effect in human experience; if they will only reflect 
how people feel in certain positions, they may avoid 
similar evils. 

In Isaiah we are told, that "The son shall bear the 
iniquities of the father"; and, again, that he shall 
not. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also 
reap." And yet, we are told that one person bears 
the burden of another's sufferings. When we find 
statements apparently so conflicting, are we not wisest 
if we try to find the points of reconciliation in such 
seemingly contradictory statements? 

When we live on the spiritual plane, there are no 
disasters for us; on the higher plane, so-called disas- 
ters are but stepping-stones to further development. 
We only require certain discipline until we have out- 
grown it. Just as long as any good may be obtained 
from dealing with what may be called the cross, the 
cross looms up ; but when the time comes that the cross 
has fulfilled its mission, that cross becomes a crown. 

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The "world" which passes away, is not the planet, 
but a state of society, etc. In a figurative sense, the 
"sun shall be darkened and the moon turned to blood," 
is fulfilled in the spirit; it means a new order of 
society. There is much misinterpretation of the in- 
spired metaphor of the Scriptures. The "earth" 
means the objective. "In the beginning, God created 
the heavens and the earth." Earth refers to visible 
things; it is the natural showing forth the spiritual. 
The expression, "the world is passing away," is al- 
ways used to signify an existing state of society in its 
decline. 

We would certainly say if any one is given to any 
of the foolish interpretations formerly held, he had 
better give them up. There will not be external ful- 
filment of the prophecies, but a spiritual verification. 
We are now on the verge of a new era. 

MEDITATION. 

The cross is transmuted into the crown. The trans- 
formation of the cross into the crown is like the baser 
metals being placed in the crucible; the dross is con- 
sumed and the pure gold remains, purified by fire. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

We cannot wipe out anything with tears. There 
is but one at-one-ment — go and sin no more. 



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PERSISTENCE. 

A dormant faculty remains dormant until some- 
thing comes to call it forth. Those who are contend- 
ed against, become strong. 

The very best thing that can happen to people is 
when they are subjected to severe privations. Our 
great minds, as a rule, come out of strong effort, and 
out of much contention with what the world calls mis- 
fortune. 

It is looking back and turning back, getting dis- 
couraged and disappointed, that hinders success; go- 
ing on and on, persistently, is what makes for success 
■ — dogged persistency. One may have much to battle 
with; but by going on, steadfastly, we all shall suc- 
ceed. Do not stop to fight the enemy. Go to sleep 
whenever you wish to. But when you steadily hold 
before you that one persistent consciousness that you 
are a magnet to draw toward you whatever you will, 
you will bring it to you. 

Man's desire is an expression of man's potency; 
every one can do what he desires to do. But the voli- 
tion is fulfilled gradually, in a process from within 
outward. 



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Our desires must be fulfilled through steady, con- 
stant expectation. The desire must be firmly and 
consistently held. It fulfils the law, "Every one that 
seekest, findeth." It is to ask for one thing definite- 
ly, and then do everything with that one object and 
expectation. Never permit anything to come be- 
tween you and the fulfilment of your desire. 

A teacher cannot give us ability, but can help us to 
unfold our ability. Our desire is an evidence that we 
have some talent for the thing desired. Never allow 
yourself to become discouraged because your progress 
seems slow; you must never take any notice of seem- 
ing failure or defeat. Note only your successes. 
And use ever to yourself, correct versus incorrect lan- 
guage. It is exactly the same in regard to any prog- 
ress; do not say, "I do not seem to make much prog- 
ress," but, "I am sure I do this a little better than I 
did." 

Obstacles come to us to be conquered — to be over- 
come ; but any one who will stand aloof will gain noth- 
ing. 

Let the will remain where it is; the will is good 
enough, but the intellect is often all wrong. The will 
that says "I wish it" is to be left where it is; but the 
intellect must be brought to realize that "I will do it, 
and I can do it." The very moment that you bring 

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the "can" instead of the "cannot" into relation with 
the will, you have overcome the difficulty. 

The word "trust" is used constantly, in connection 
with the word "faith." Before we can trust, we must 
acknowledge the trustworthiness of the thing in which 
we trust. 

We must use the word "can" potentially before we 
use it actually. 

MEDITATION. 

Work is something that we love to do; labor is 
something we have to do. Work is a blessing, but 
labor is a curse. 

Always maintain that you will have the strength 
for whatever necessity may arise. 

All progress is by means of a spiral stairway; we 
do not go forward in a straight line, but by a spiral 
pathway, and this pathway often appears to have its 
ups and downs. We are not going simply round and 
round, but truly going forward. 



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CONCENTRATION. 

The restless character is not the ideal character. In 
order to develop general power, one has to learn to 
work with one's mind. 

Whenever you are afraid that you are going to lose 
something, and are always troubling yourself about 
it, you set in motion a destructive current of force. 

We can do as we choose with our own faculties. 
This is the first lesson in concentration. If you say 
you cannot help it, you are a confessed creature of cir- 
cumstance. 

According to whatever you expect — whether you 
will it so, or whether you will it otherwise — shall it 
be unto you. 

Like attracts like ; everything attracts its own kind, 
throughout the universe. But there are those who 
desire one thing and expect another ; this explains why 
many persons remain ill. 

You can have anything you like in the universe; — 
provided you set about attracting it in the right way. 
Can you not make a mental picture of anything you 
want? The first question is, Do you know what you 
want? If you do not know what you want, no one 

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can help you. In business, unless you know what 
you want, a business person cannot tell you how to 
get it; it is just the same on the psychic plane. Find 
out what you desire most of all. Choose out some 
place and some occupation, and put yourself in re- 
lation with it subjectively, in your quietest moments. 

If we know what we want, we can relate ourselves 
to it. Go into the silence and find out what you want. 
Do not rise from your chair or place of retirement 
until you know what you want. 

Every individual is a magnet to draw to himself 
whatever he needs to draw — whatsoever is steadily 
determined upon. The result is attained by living 
continually with one object and one determination. 
When people will to succeed, that is one-half; when 
they expect to succeed, that is the other half. This is 
to govern fate, instead of being governed by it. 

We put all speculative topics aside; we will not 
dogmatize upon them at all. The question is not 
whether our desires are the result of reincarnation or 
the result of heredity. But, your desire being what 
it is — your desire being yours — you can gratify the 
desire. We cannot change our past incarnations. 
What we maintain is, whatever your desire is now — 
let it result from whatever it may — you can fulfil your 
desire through the law of attraction. If you do not 

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care about a thing, you do not want to get it. There 
is not a person on this earth who really wants a thing 
and cannot get it. The desire is that which attracts. 

Make conditions for success by calling out mentally 
whatever you wish to attract. You are a magnet to 
attract it ; it is entirely through the law of attraction. 
"Wherever two or three are gathered together in my 
name, there am I in the midst of them." Wherever 
two or three are gathered together in any mental con- 
dition, if joyful, they are a magnet to attract joy; 
they attract whatever they concentrate upon. 

Not in use, but in abuse, lies the injury of any fac- 
ulty. Never make an unpleasant effort to produce 
any effect. Doubt and fear and strainful effort 
produce injurious effects. When people try to do 
anything, they almost invariably fail to do it. Never 
say "I'll try," but say "I'll do it." "I'll do it!" is 
what conquers obstacles. 

If a person wants anything, let him know that he 
wants it and open himself to it. "I will have what I 
want, because I want it," is the attitude to take for 
the accomplishment of anything. 

When you wish a prophesy for your own life, go 
into the sacred silence; don't ask anybody else, but 
go into the depths of your own consciousness. When 

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you can go into the holy silence at will, then you will 
soon become a genuine theosophist. 

The way in which the highest knowledge comes to 
us is the way it came to the early prophets ; they went 
away by themselves — they went into the wilderness. 

If we have pure eyes and loving hearts, we can read 
the book of Nature. There is meaning to every voice, 
and a significance to every form. 

The true condition is perfect rest, but continual 
activity. 

It is not the length of time we consume in doing 
any work, but the amount of energy we throw into 
our work that truly tells. 

People who are always running about and trying 
to accomplish a great deal, often accomplish very lit- 
tle. Quiet industry is most effective. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

The greatest and the noblest things often take the 
longest in coming to maturity. 



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DESTINY. 

While only what is involved can be evolved^ we 
know that irrigation is necessary for the fertility of 
the soil. A fertile soil is necessary for perfect expan- 
sion of the buried seed. 

If we have different works to do, this necessitates 
varying endowments. One star differs from another 
star in glory — not, necessarily, in the greater glory 
of one than another. 

We must regard humanity as the Grand Man. 
The Grand Man has all the members and all the parts 
which the human body has; and one member cannot 
do the work that another should. We must admit 
that there are people born into the world who cannot 
do the work their brothers or sisters can. The same 
talent is not demanded in all. There are always some 
people who not only see ahead, but work ahead. 
There are some who are in the brains of the Grand 
Man; these have to work in their studios, preparing 
great things for the world. There are societies of 
angels who perform the functions of the mouth; oth- 
ers who are in the province of the hands. Those who 
are called upon to run on swift errands are in the feet 
of the Grand Man. 

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There are those who are especially qualified for out- 
ward kinds of work ; there are those who are qualified 
for esoteric action only. 

We may find our places in the Signs of the Zodiac. 

Not every one is qualified to be in the brain, or in 
the eye, or in the tongue of the Grand Man. Some 
must be in the hands, others in the feet. We are to 
aim after organic harmony — a perfect organism. 

We are perfectly in harmony with Nature when we 
claim that there may be twelve manners of people — 
as represented by the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac — 
all correspondences to the different parts of the body. 

We may also note fancied resemblances in people 
to the different animals ; thus, some people exhibit the 
characteristics of the wolf; others show the traits of 
the dog or the cat. (All this may tend to support the 
theory that our lower selves have evolved through the 
various stages of the animal kingdom. ) 

Desire to fulfil your own mission in life, whatever 
it may be ; then, when you take this ground, that you 
will work for the good of humanity, you will find that 
in these days, as in days of old, there is a Sinai. You 
will find yourself on the hill, conversing with the 
highest. 

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Learn to appreciate every one's gift, your own in- 
cluded. And then, do not care what particular thing 
you are called upon to do, what situation you are 
called upon to fill, but seek to attain the highest state 
in any. Many will say they cannot do the things they 
are called upon to do. If any one feels in that way, 
he should compel himself to do the thing over and 
over, until he feels no aversion to it, and can do it well. 

The words "gift" and "mission" have a universal 
signification. 

Every human being has a mission, a distinct des- 
tiny. Some have missions which seem to elevate 
them, in a certain sense, above others. There are 
those who may be regarded in a special way as fights 
of the world. 

No one's work comes to an end because it has been 
a failure, but because it has been a success. 

The law is that all affairs and events of human life 
remain until their successors are ready to appear. 

Always feel that if one thing goes away, you are 
ready for something higher. Never say, "I have lost 
something," but, "I have come to the end of a certain 
period in my journey, what is the next thing for me to 
do? What is the next good that is coming to me?" 

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Destiny 

What has a beginning must have an end ; what has 
no beginning can have no end. 

At this particular time, we are at the end of a cycle 
— at the close of an age. It seems as though this con- 
ception were in the air; every one seems to feel it. 
But the majority of people fail to interpret the signs. 
We are not yet in the new dispensation, but we are in 
a period of what might be called interregnum. The 
world is now passing through a narrow passage-way, 
like the bar at the mouth of a river. The generally 
instilled feeling everywhere says we are in a transi- 
tional epoch. It is as people usually feel at a period 
of house-moving — a great deal more than a simple 
change, like going into some place or condition with 
which we are not familiar ; there is an element of mys- 
tery. The unknown, even if it may be an unknown 
blessing, is still dreaded ; that is why there are so many 
restless hearts and minds at present. 

We hear it truly said, "There is a good time com- 
ing!" We are in the dawn of the "Golden Age." 
We cannot tell how long it will last; a "thousand" 
signifies a great number. 

As all the baser metals are transmutable into gold, 
so every cross that the world has borne is to be melted 
into a crown. The cross becomes a crown through 
transformation of energy. 

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It is the destiny of Columbia to lead the nations. 
Every land is to become a Palestine. Think of the 
territorial area of the United States! This is to be 
the new nation! A new nation is being "born in a 
day" — in the day when people can see the light, in a 
period of light and universal illumination. 

The Orient and the Occident shall join hands. 

We believe there will spring up here (America will 
take the initiative) a new dispensation of Light and 
Truth to dawn upon the whole world. 

The new order of things will not be born all at once ; 
it will come as a little child, but it will grow, continu- 
ally increasing in wisdom and stature. 

MEDITATION. 

Every man is the arbiter of his own fate and the 
shaper of his own destiny. There is a destiny in the 
sense that there is a destination. The destiny of man 
is involved in his nature. 

We must not believe in physical power as we do in 
intellectual and moral power. Spirituality alone 
justifies optimism. No finite step is a final step. 

We should look upon our past lives as stepping- 
stones to the higher lives we are to live. We rise 
from the dead; not the resurrection of the dead, but 
from the dead is our blissful heritage. 

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Nothing can go until the time has come for its de- 
parture. You cannot destroy what has a message yet 
to deliver and a mission yet unfulfilled. 

The reason why some structures and some books 
remain, while others are lost or destroyed, is because 
they have something yet to teach. Nothing is de- 
stroyed or lost until it has fulfilled its mission. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

Let us ever realize a Trinity of Love, Wisdom and 

Use. 



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HEREDITY. 

The doctrine of heredity is the old doctrine of orig- 
inal sin in a somewhat new and professedly scientific 
guise. 

We are told that in consequence of the transgres- 
sion of the first parents of the human race, sin came 
into the world. There are two theories with regard 
to original sin: one, that man inherits sin from his 
forefathers ; the other, that of imputed sin. 

If people believe simply in heredity, they make 
themselves irresponsible creatures. This is hopeless 
pessimism for a great many people ; it is only the old 
Calvinistic doctrine of original sin dressed in a new 
garb. If this were true, the race would tend to final 
corruption. "He that overcometh shall inherit all 
things." 

There are no invincible tendencies. You can over- 
come the tendency to consumption just as reasonably 
as you can overcome the tendency to drink or any 
other immorality. 

Persons may become intoxicated, and suffer from 
delirium tremens; that is the penalty. You can dis- 
cover the law of cause and effect so as to work with it. 

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Most people think it very wrong to tell a falsehood; 
it is wrong, beyond a doubt, but a person may have 
just as much a tendency to lying as to consumption or 
cancer. If a person has a tendency to tell lies, he 
ought to overcome it ; then he must have the power to 
overcome it. One cannot do what one is constitution- 
ally unable to do. We must teach ability, or our 
moral counsels, even the highest of them, are idle, im- 
practicable vaporings. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

We are not bound by the law of heredity. All ten- 
dencies can be encouraged and developed, or they can 
be suppressed and overcome. 



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SPECIALTY. 

Great specialists are not apt to be interesting to 
people in general. 

Information should be obtained upon all points, 
but we have plenty of room for specialists. There are 
certain qualifications, however, which are as necessary 
for one as for another. 

There never will be a successful worker in any field 
who has not qualified himself for that special field. 
We must understand our business. Whatever may 
be the particular qualification one desires, one must 
live for that work in particular. 

To be specialists in any great line, We must concen- 
trate our forces on that special line. If you want to 
succeed in anything, you can become great wherever 
you really desire to be great. 

It is asked, "Is it not true that any scientific demon- 
stration demands that one's life should be given up to 
it?" If we desire to be eminent scientists in any 
line, we must give ourselves entirely to our work. 
We must be people of "one idea" ; we must have one 
central object. We may read all literature, and in- 
terest ourselves in all arts and amusements, but we 
must make everything subsidiary to the chosen end. 

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Make everything you hear — everything you do — tend 
in one direction. Be able to illustrate your subject 
in manifold ways. People may carry the thought of 
psychic development with them wherever they go, 
into everything they do; never allowing anything to 
be a hindrance ; keeping the desire always fixed upon 
the unfolding of the interior. 

If one is to use his eyes, he must have an occupation 
which calls the eyes into use. 

Give out your best and highest, in every way : in the 
newspaper article, in your novels, in your conversa- 
tion, in your silent thought. 

The majority of people, who write hysterically on 
various subjects, start on their subjects from nowhere, 
and, therefore, cannot possibly reach a satisfactory 
conclusion. 

In going into the practice of healing, do not give 
up your special talent, but through the exercise of 
your gift do your work. The daily newspaper, the 
theatre, the novel, all are to be used as channels to 
carry the higher truths to the people. Every one is 
to use his own special talent, and give to the world 
what he has to give, through that special channel. 
Some people have, undoubtedly, greater capacity 
than others, but no one should lay aside his special 
vocation. 



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MEDITATION. 

We rest by changing our occupation. But let peo- 
ple cease to do anything, and think that idleness will 
produce a cure, they will not find what they expect 
but exactly the reverse of it. 

When people talk about attracting whatever they 
want, it is perfectly true; but they cannot want what 
they have not potentially the means of procuring. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

Whatever is involved in any soul can be evolved 
therefrom. 



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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION. 

There is a Law of Attraction, which is absolutely 
universal. Everything is a link to attract that which 
is like itself. Thus one may be brought into relation 
with all in Nature that is like unto the object upon 
which one elects to concentrate. 

Every individual is by nature a magnet to draw 
from the universe what is needed to build up his own 
organization. It is not for us to give up to others, 
nor to ask others to give up to us. 

Whatever comes into any building, or into any per- 
son's individual sphere, comes because it is attracted 
thereto through the Law of Attraction. 

We hear of attraction and repulsion: the Law of 
Attraction is the only law we recognize. There is in 
reality no law of repulsion, though there appears to 
be such a law. Everything follows the line of great- 
est attraction, which is the line of least resistance; 
thus it appears to us that there is repulsion, while 
really there is only attraction. 

Any limitation that anybody is groaning under 
comes through the Law of Attraction. 

Whether a person knows it or not, he gets whatever 
he is in a condition to receive. 

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Many will say — "We came into the world with dif- 
fering endowments." That is not asking "How did 
we come to be what we are? And from whence did 
we get our tendencies?" Granted that you have any 
desire, you can fulfil that desire through the operation 
of the Law of Attraction ; making yourself a magnet, 
you can draw to yourself anything you want. 

The action of this Law of Attraction is, that what- 
ever we seek, we find. And, if two persons can be 
found attracting the same conditions, they will have 
precisely the same experiences — provided they are in 
the same mental conditions. 

We shall eventually know how to produce anything 
in this world that we wish to produce. 

Let people assert something, instead of attempting 
to deny something; trust in the Law of Attraction, 
not in the Law of Repulsion, conquers. No one need 
suffer from a sense of neglect, nor through hyper- 
sensitiveness from disappointment and heartache; 
there is a cure for all this. When feeling sorrowful, 
pronounce the words "Joy, joy!" Try this, it will be 
found successful. Everything answers to its own 
name. Everything responds to the name by which it 
is known! 

It is the Universal Law: "Call upon me and I will 
answer!" This is universally true; it refers to the 

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highest, and the lowest, and to all that is intermediary. 
Whatever you call will always respond. 

When we pronounce certain words mentally, mak- 
ing positive assertions, our words return to us; and 
they do not return to us void. 

It is entirely the condition of the person himself 
which causes the treatment he receives. Those who 
get the worst treatment bring it upon themselves. 

If you have bad dreams — if you have nightmares 
■ — if you wake in the morning feeling badly — it is en- 
tirely your own fault; not necessarily your sin; but 
your blunder. 

The Law of Attraction needs to be understood. 
If you are in a condition to attract children, and do 
not know that there are any children in the neighbor- 
hood, they will be attracted by you and will come to 
you, because of that attraction. It is not only so 
with children, but also with animals — with dogs and 
with birds. It is not probable that they understand 
this, but they surely feel drawn toward you because 
of the sympathetic vibration between you and them. 
This is the Law of Sympathetic Vibration. 

If there is such a law as that of repulsion, we have 
nothing to do with it. People do not know what the 
action of their vibrations is upon things around them, 

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many times, and thus attract things they greatly 
dislike. 

Let us be thankful for everything that comes to 
us ; if it ought not to come, it would not come. It is 
the effect of a cause. If we did not attract it, we 
should not have it. 

In the same way that the physician draws towards 
him the sick, will the wise person draw toward himself 
the foolish; the moral will draw the immoral, and so 
on; because we can help others thus. 

Only the outward form of a work can be regulated 
by what we call circumstances. 

Why do the ignorant go to teachers? For the en- 
lightenment of their understanding. 

We should feel that Almighty God is paying us a 
compliment when he sends to us people with down- 
ward tendencies. What does the Law of Attraction 
find to work upon in such cases? It works upon the 
germ of honor, which is like a diamond set in mud. 

Those who come into the sphere of pure influence 
can be affected for good by unconscious influence. 

MEDITATION. 

We can become related to all that is beautiful in the 
world, through the Law of Attraction, through a 

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mental process, regardless of what our exterior sur- 
roundings may be. 

The Law of Attraction explains entirely the wis- 
dom of prayer on a scientific basis. 

When you follow the Law of Attraction, you are 
drawn in a superior degree to a certain place; and if 
you are at all versatile, you will be sometimes drawn 
to one place, sometimes to another, but always to the 
right place at the right time and in the right way. 

You say a certain thought strikes you. Why? 
Because you were in a condition to be struck. Un- 
less you were in a condition to be struck, it could not 
have struck you. 



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RECOGNITION OF QUALIFICATION. 

The right of every individual is to do whatever he 
or she can do well. Qualification is the test of ordi- 
nation. The qualified healer is the ordained healer. 

It is recognition of qualification that we need. The 
very moment people claim anything as a right — the 
very moment we get to that point — we are ready for 
something; and we never get it until we are ready 
for it. 

We do not always see how the Law of Attraction 
honors all who trust it, but that is only on account of 
our shortsightedness. 

Silently, we can become magnets to attract every- 
thing we desire. But what is the genesis of desire? 
There must be a cause for desire. If we had no ca- 
pacity, no talent, we would never have the desire to 
express it. 

The very moment we can see a thing, we are ready 
for it — else we could not see it. The very moment 
we have come to see a higher state, we can begin to 
make it manifest. 

Only those who have had a metaplrysical education 
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Recognition of Qualification 

the actual; they recognize the possibilities within 
every one and distinguish between the potential and 
the actual. To recognize the kingdom of Heaven 
within, is to help that Heaven to shine forth, to ac- 
tualize. 

If you place before the eyes of people — within easy 
range of their vision — that which symbolizes a state 
which they have not yet attained, but which they can 
reach, you aid them in reaching it. 

We must affirm that a person has it within him to 
express what he has not yet attained, whenever we are 
seeking to aid him in any department of education. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

Wherever there is Qualification, there is a signet of 
Divine Ordination. 



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POLARITY. 

People who are unsuccessful are not rightly polar- 
ized. 

Many persons are imperfectly married within 
themselves; they may be emotional but not intellec- 
tual, or intellectual and not emotional. Where in- 
tellect and emotion are perfectly united, how much 
grander and more glorious the results! When the 
two blend in us, then our spiritual gifts unfold; we 
attain the highest psychical state. What is brought 
forth in us as spiritual power is through the blending 
of these elements — emotion and intellect. 

Everybody is susceptible to something — proof 
against something else. 

When we come into knowledge of our inner selves, 
we shall be conscious of being susceptible to every- 
thing we wish to be susceptible to, and proof against 
everything we wish to be proof against. 

One's sensitiveness can be brought so entirely un- 
der his own control that he can be open to any influx, 
and close himself against an influx he wishes to avoid. 
We are influenced by the erroneous thoughts of those 
around us, if we are in a negative condition to their 
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Until you can realize that you have the magnet 
within yourself to draw to you at any time that which 
you need, you are in a degree of servitude. When 
you can declare, "God is everywhere! The Divine 
Spirit is within me — within you — throughout the 
universe!" then, you do not have to yield to anything. 
No one need yield to circumstances. 

We hear much about electricity and magnetism. 
Every thinker to-day is a believer in the unity of 
force; not two forces, one magnetic and the other 
electric, but one force which acts in both directions, 
one law, manifesting itself in a variety of ways. One 
force, moving in a northerly and southerly direction 
is magnetism ; moving easterly and westerly it is elec- 
tricity. Force may move in one direction and be 
magnetic ; then in another, and be electric. 

People one would call "sweet," and "gentle," may 
be very easily wounded — have their feelings hurt; 
they allow their feelings to be wounded. They do not 
say anything, perhaps, but go to their rooms and 
have a "good cry," and often go to sleep in that mood. 
How can they expect to be well! Such persons are 
weak, far too negative. 

There are two wise courses of action ; either take no 
notice of an annoyance, or else have it out with a per- 
son. Misunderstandings and misinterpretations are 

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wrong on both sides; it is better to have it out with 
the one who has injured you or wounded your feel- 
ings. 

It is entirely unnecessary that you should remain 
abnormally sensitive. 

No one can be too sensitive to spiritual influx of a 
high order; but sensitiveness is wrongly interpreted. 
People are sensitive on very different planes. 

A negative state of disorder expresses itself in 
weakness, debility — too little strength ; a positive state 
of disorder, in positive ailments. 

Unsatisfied is a purely negative state. Dissatisfied 
is a different condition altogether. There are many 
people who are both — confusion of condition. When 
people are unsatisfied, a new hope, a new desire, a 
new ardor is growing within them. 

Very sensitive people, who are too negative, catch 
diseases; why not catch something good? 

Just as it can be definitely stated on the physical 
plane, that certain requirements are necessary, so on 
the mental plane, one's condition is all-important. 
There is no law that will favor one more than it will 
another. If one takes the "grippe" and another does 
not, it stands to reason that if both have been exposed 
to the same atmosphere, they are not in the same con- 
dition. 

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We are differently affected by things because of 
the different magnets within ourselves. We can ad- 
just those magnets so that we can go on attracting 
just what we wish to attract. 

All that we attract is in the atmosphere ; we become 
related with it through our thought. 

There is all the difference in the world between 
reading a condition, and taking on a condition. Read- 
ing a condition is all right ; but taking on a condition 
is very wrong. Many people, when they go any- 
where, take on conditions. Now, we maintain that 
the scientific clairvoyant or psychometrist will be able 
to see, without yielding to conditions. There is a 
normal and abnormal sensitiveness. One may be able 
to give clairvoyant diagnosis, but, keeping it exter- 
nal, may avoid taking on the condition. We may be- 
come sensitive to information; but all the knowledge 
we make use of is not to sadden us. To see events is 
all right; but the abnormally sensitive person would 
feel the fright. The psychic, if duly fortified, would 
keep deranged conditions external; one must get to 
this point before he can become a successful mental 
healer. There is such a thing as the prostitution of 
the mental faculties! 

By holding ourselves external to suffering, we re- 
verse the picture — as all suffering is inversion; we can 

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then help the patient to get rid of it. We should 
never allow ourselves to come under the influence of 
a thing, because we see it. 

"With God, all things are possible!" "All things 
are possible to him that believeth." Nothing shall be 
impossible to such. When a man is working accord- 
ing to law, all things are possible to him. If he ig- 
nores the Law of the Universe, he will very soon find 
that the Law of the Universe will have its own way 
regardless of his opposition, and his opposition is 
what will cause his own inevitable suffering. 

There are people who take a decided, positive 
ground, and affirm their own individuality truly, who 
are never annoyed by outside influences. We must 
be able to become positive and negative, at will. The 
line should be drawn resolutely at interference or con- 
trol of our individuality by any hypnotic influence. 

MEDITATION. 

Perfect equanimity, mental quiet, is essential to 
read the Book of Nature. "Be still, and know that 
I am God!" The mighty silence — and waiting! 
Blending of fearlessness and calm expectancy is es- 
sential to genuine attainment in any direction. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

A person who has attained to the higher careless- 
ness is the one who is ready for every emergency. 

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ATTAINMENT OF VICTORY. 

If you gain a victory on any plane, that victory 
stands you in stead for all future time. You have 
risen superior; it is the rising" superior to something 
that is of use to us. If you rise in your own men- 
tality and score a victory once, it is a growth that can 
be employed for all time to come. Once gain a vic- 
tory, and that victory is yours forever. 

We can change at will the polarity of our own con- 
dition. There is a scientific law of action, which can 
be acted out by all who are industrious and fearless 
enough to trust their intuitions. 

One cannot be happy, harmonious or well, so long 
as he allows the caprice of any being to make or mar 
his harmony. 

One who can hurt my feelings is above me, and will 
not attempt to do so ; one who would hurt my feelings 
is below me, and cannot hurt me. 

All feeling of mental uncertainty makes the sight 
uncertain. Cultivate certainty within by finest medi- 
tation. 



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HARMONIOUS VIBRATION. 

Peace is from the heights above ; discord is from be- 
low. 

We can make our surroundings tributary to our 
needs; this is the Law of Harmonious Vibration. 

Through the Law of Attraction we can get from 
the universe whatever we need. We should so relate 
ourselves with the universe that we can say with Paul, 
"I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith 
to be content." How very few are the necessaries of 
life! "High thinking, and plain living!" 

If people were living according to spiritual law — 
understanding and obeying that law — they would be 
able to change poisons, even, into harmonious food. 
They would be able to so control the different ele- 
ments taken into the system as to cause one element 
to go to one place, and another to go to a distinct part 
of the body; making different combinations. There- 
fore, it would be possible — if a person were highly 
enough unfolded — to really convert usually harmful 
substances into nourishing food; just as fertilizers are 
put upon the earth, and serve to increase its fertility. 
The elements are changed in their relations, through 

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disintegration and reintegration of their constituent 
particles. 

We believe that there is a proper diet. The ideal 
diet would be a diet of fruit and nuts. The very 
highest type of man would be perfectly sustained 
upon fruit and nuts; but until we can put ourselves 
into that state, we must get out of what we now take, 
such aliment as we need. This is the law of demand 
— to make such use of the food and beverages we 
take, as to get what we require from them. It all de- 
pends upon what you do with the coffee after you 
drink it as to whether it is well for you to drink it at 
all. 

Whenever you go against any force, you make that 
force your adversary. Go and place yourself in har- 
mony with those elements that you are at enmity with ; 
go and make it up with the east wind, or the rain, or 
the snow, or the cold; those elements are good for us, 
provided we put ourselves in harmony with them. 
There is a ps3^chical force in all Nature which will 
strengthen and invigorate us, if we put ourselves in 
harmony with it. 

We may so relate ourselves to the universe that we 
shall be as lamps living upon the atmosphere. 

If we know how to relate ourselves to our surround- 
ings, we can keep ourselves in perfect order. 

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People do not become spiritual in consequence of 
what they eat ; but, as they become spiritual, they re- 
late themselves differently to food — to everything. 
We act upon the fluid secretions of our systems en- 
tirely through our mental or psychical states. 

What is the condition of your system? What do 
you do with the food after you eat it? — that is the 
important question. If you eat a boiled egg, in a 
certain mental condition, it may have a totally differ- 
ent effect upon your system than when eaten in an- 
other mental condition. 

Mental health is all-important. 

If we feel opposed to anything, we must bring our- 
selves into harmonious relation with it, and thus cure 
our antagonism. 

Whatever we hate — whatever we oppose — what- 
ever we antagonize — we give power to hurt us. 

We must overcome antagonism and prejudice. 
Wherever there is antagonism, or wherever there is 
fear, there is danger. All prejudices and fear must 
be overcome; because, just as long as these exist, 
there will be illness. 

All remedial agents are useless as long as there is 
an antagonizing force in the individual. Until we 
have trained our intellects to act in harmony with our 
wills, we cannot be well. 

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There are just two courses of action which are safe; 
to put ourselves in harmony with our surroundings, 
and go with them, or to live outside of them. We 
should never allow ourselves to go against anything 
— never allow antagonism. There are many whom 
we need not feel called upon to work with. Do not 
have any hard feelings in regard to such; merely let 
them alone. 

Every body gets out of things just what he, as a 
magnet, draws out of them. The ideal state is to be 
able to relate ourselves harmoniously with everything 
with which we must come in contact. 

A very small act may be an indication of a condi- 
tion. 

Everything has its own rate of vibration. 

The question is asked, "How can we learn the rate 
of vibration of anything we desire, so that we can 
vibrate with it?" It is not necessary to know the rate 
of vibration, in order to come into harmonious rela- 
tion with anything. 

Whenever we put ourselves through sympathy en 
rapport with anything, we vibrate with it — at the 
same rate of speed. 

Whenever you put yourself in relation with any- 
thing in the universe, you can attract it. If you 

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choose to believe that your key to the universe is only 
through another person's magnetism, you will have to 
believe that that magnetism has reached you in some 
way before you can be helped. But you should get 
free from such belief. 

God might say, "When did I ever appoint a janitor 
to open and close the door of Heaven?" 

We can have anything we want in our own spheres, 
if we can only relate ourselves to it. We must realize 
that it is our own state. It is not the external sur- 
rounding, it is the individual himself that needs to be 
effectually dealt with. 

If evolution and revolution are twins, astronomical 
revolution combines both. There are ever two move- 
ments of the heavenly bodies; the one, round and 
round; the other unceasingly forward. Man travels 
as the planets travel, and the planets travel as man 
travels; man cannot separate himself from the rhyth- 
mical motion of the heavenly spheres. 

A person vibrating outside the ordinary circles is 
not appreciated by the masses; it is a circle that the 
majority of people do not know anything about. One 
will be healed and blessed by being brought into any 
circle if it be a superior one to the one in which he has 
been revolving. 

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The vibrations which give one pleasure may give 
another pain. 

One should never place one's self in an attitude of 
antagonism, because this attitude always injures the 
one who holds unlovely thought. 

You can put yourself in harmony with anything by 
mentally going with it; make yourself its friend, and 
it will be your friend. 

We are susceptible to the mental influence of those 
we make heroes of, if we associate with them. We 
can also relate ourselves with them, through the Law 
of Vibration — even in absence. 

If you get into a mental condition which causes 
more rapid circulation of the blood, the rate is in- 
creased — the blood flows more freely. The mental 
condition is the only thing to calculate. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

Will yourself into a serene mental state, and you 
need never trouble about external things, as they will 
all come right without your worrying. 



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TELEPATHY. 

The Law of Vibration is the universal law. Vibra- 
tions do not have to reach the tympanum of the phys- 
ical ear. Acknowledge such a thing as telepathy — 
thought-transference. Make yourself a magnet to 
attract the special quality of thought you most de- 
sire. You can be that magnet, wherever you may be ; 
it is a mental condition. Your circumstances do not 
matter at all, provided the thought formed is always 
held in the receptive attitude; but if you allow the 
thought to intrude that something is a hindrance, it 
will be a hindrance to you. By keeping the mental 
magnet always firmly fixed, you will draw towards 
you whatever you desire to attract. 

Telepathy — the ability to produce mental action at 
a distance — may be developed by every one who will 
patiently seek it. 

The best time for sending a mental message is just 
when you feel all aglow with it. Get into a condition 
where you are full of a thought, then project it. 

The ability to send and receive telepathic communi- 
cations depends upon the development of the persons 
— and, like everything else, it takes practice. Much 
is lost by anxiety and striving for results. 

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You may not find your wires working perfectly, at 
first ; your cables may even break, until you have had 
wider experience; but the time is coming when all 
these difficulties will pass away. 

Almost invariably, people put themselves into the 
most uncomfortable attitudes when endeavoring to 
give a mental treatment, or to send or receive a mental 
telegram ; instead of being perfectly easy and natural 
about it, they are usually in an unnatural attitude, and 
endeavor to force themselves into difficult positions. 

The ability to work wonders is not through tech- 
nical knowledge, but through psychical development 
which produces a higher rate of vibration. 

Those who are not yet developed to the point of be- 
ing able to project their thought, for them there is 
not any credible proof of the power of sending 
thought long distances. Long-distance telepathy is, 
however, abundantly proved by constant practice on 
the part of the serene-minded. 

Hold yourself firmly where you are; encourage 
your perception to extend itself. Many people de- 
velop hysteria by trying to get out in the astral body, 
and do things they are not yet prepared for. 



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CORRESPONDENCES. 

Everything external is the correspondence of some 
internal condition. 

Our own souls are in correspondences with Divine 
Good — in each working out our own salvation. 

This world is only a world of effects and corre- 
spondences. 

Christ builds his church upon the rock (Peter) of 
intuitive perception of truth. 

Jesus Christ means goodness and truth — goodness, 
the love of right ; truth, the knowledge of right. 

"A stone for his pillow," signifies resting on the 
rock of truth. 

All external things are correspondences ; sweet fruit 
is a correspondence to some good within us, of which 
it is the ultimate. 

When a man is bald, it signifies, in correspondence, 
that he has nothing to conceal, or that he is unable to 
conceal. 

In correspondent language, snow-white hair means 
that one has come into a condition where, from good 
and pure internals, one has come to express pure ex- 
ternals. 



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There is the same adapted relation between the psy- 
chical body and the psychical world that there is be- 
tween the physical body and the material world. 

Because the interior existence of all things is spir- 
itual, the exterior existence may be spiritualized so as 
to bring it into perfect conformity with the inmost. 

There is a perfect analogy between subjective and 
objective experiences. 

The "white stone and new name written therein" 
granted to those who are "sealed in the forehead," is 
the clear perception of truth which an individual en- 
joys who has earned illumination through fidelity 
under all provocation. 



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ASSOCIATION AND ORGANIZATION. 

Association and organization are words vastly dif- 
ferent in their signification. An organization must 
be a perfect whole; a body having its different mem- 
bers, each important in its place. 

There is not a single religious organization that 
does not in some way cramp its members. Can you 
form a Spiritual Organization? If you can form a 
spiritual organization without a material head, you 
can obtain the most remarkable results. 

Real spiritual work does not involve business man- 
agement. 

A company of people, attracted to each other by 
the law of psychical affinity — held together in the em- 
brace of true brotherhood and sisterhood — these might 
meet, in each other's homes — no initiation fees — no 
dues — such might attain true spiritual development. 
If you come together with one accord, your purpose 
shall be granted. 



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MEMORY. 

Loss of control over memory is a sign of insanity. 
People strong mentally have good control over their 
memories. 

We do not ever forget, but something comes be- 
tween our mental vision and the recollection of an ob- 
ject. 

No one ever forgets anything. Instead of endeav- 
oring to strengthen memory, we must undertake to 
gain an adequate, where we now have a very insuffi- 
cient command over our memories. 

Take the mental attitude, "I will remember what- 
ever I will to remember." 

Will the memory of our follies remain forever? 
No ; not when we have overcome them. The sight of 
evil is our penalty ; if we create discords, they will ring 
in our own ears. We should endeavor to interpret 
the doctrine of Karma broadly. If I make a discord 
in my own psychical sphere, that discord rings in my 
own ears — just as our individual environment is of 
our own making. If I throw into my own individual 
sphere that which makes me suffer, I need to change 
my own state. Outside things are well enough; we 

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must change ourselves inwardly before we can rightly 
relate ourselves to any surrounding. 

There is a universal Book of Remembrance, where 
everything is recorded. This volume is the inter- 
stellar atmosphere. 

"Absent-minded" expresses many a case exactly; 
absent-minded here, present-minded somewhere else. 
Our objective and subjective entities are not fully 
connected on this plane of existence, and until they 
are, remembering and forgetting must perpetually 
exist as phenomena in our experience. 



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KARMA. 

When we consider man as the child of God, we find 
the true basis of incarnation. 

Changeful Karma has an existence; it has no sub- 
sistence. It is so with all evil or error. 

We may accept the doctrine of Karma, but not all 
modern interpretations of it. Karma is simply se- 
quence, the inevitable connection between cause and 
effect, not a force which is bottled up and awaits one 
at the threshold of a new incarnation ; for we are sow- 
ing and reaping every moment we live. Karma is 
continually operating: we are making it — modifying 
it — changing it — not only by every act, but by every 
thought we entertain. We cannot interfere with 
Karma, but we can learn to make it serve us. 

A person may be treated mentally, by hypnotism; 
if a person is willing to be hypnotized, he can be hyp- 
notized. Not that any one yielding to mesmeric or 
hypnotic influence has his Karma interfered with 
thereby; but the Karma of the different phases of ex- 
istence^ — the consequences of past life, remembered or 
unremembered — is what permits this influence. 

In mental treatment, some people seem to yield at 
once, others much more slowly, or not at all ; they are 

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impenetrable, like a rhinoceros' hide. Karma is made 
manifest by their different degrees of susceptibility. 
Their Karma cannot be interfered with! 

One person may require treatment, another may be 
able to give treatment to others; there, again, is a 
manifestation of Karma. The susceptibility to dis- 
ease shows an evidence of Karma. Again, we see an 
evidence of Karma in susceptibility to temptation. 
We have the power to call out from those easily influ- 
enced any phase of character we will. The Karma of 
different individuals is made manifest by these vari- 
ous degrees or conditions. 

If persons come to you who are capable of being 
helped in any way, don't leave them to their Karma! 
It is your Karma as much as theirs that has brought 
you together. If you help them, you are not only 
making good Karma for yourself, but helping them 
also to make good Karma for themselves. Do not 
leave people to their fate ! The most pestilential doc- 
trine is that of leaving people to their Karma. No 
one is making anything that could be called good 
Karma unless he is doing all he can to uplift human- 
ity. The wave of mental influence that goes to help 
others, must help one's self also. 

Resignation to a supposed inevitable condition — if 
a person is suffering from anything — on the plea that 

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it is his Karma, merits no sympathy whatever. 

When bad Karma makes itself manifest ; the way to 
get rid of it is to work in some good Karma. 

All talk about souls dying out, or losing a soul, is 
mediaeval rubbish! The doctrines of Karma, and of 
reincarnation can be stated in such a manner as to 
prove acceptable to all deep thinkers. The real doc- 
trine is, that every human soul has a history. If there 
are cannibals on earth to-day, they will rise to the 
heights we have attained; we shall never go down to 
their level, but they will rise to ours. We may have 
been where they now are. We never go down in the 
scale of development. When we speak of the evolu- 
tion of mankind, we mean that the human race is con- 
tinually rising. We hold that individual man rises 
as the race rises, that each has a past which has led up 
to his present. 

When the soul seeks another expression on earth, 
Karma will cause it to seek those parents appropriate 
to its further development. Choice manifests our in- 
telligence; choice is one thing, freedom of choice is a 
growing quantity. 

It is not at all strange that souls should precipitate 
themselves into very disastrous surroundings. That 
the soul to be reincarnated has the opportunity of 

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choosing its own environment, and deliberately makes 
choice of its parentage, is the doctrine promulgated 
by many wise minds. Mistakes are made again and 
again, through inexperience. There will be final tri- 
umph over these obstacles. Every one rises by grad- 
ual stages to the accomplishment of noble results. 

On the basis of Astrology, a person born at a cer- 
tain time will have certain opportunities peculiar to 
himself; those opportunities may be embraced, or not, 
as the individual may elect. 

There is such a thing as relative human freedom. 

Some say it is not right to interfere with Karma. 
Karma cannot be interfered with, because it is the law 
of cause and effect. 

If we make our Karma, we can unmake it. To af- 
firm that a person cannot turn around and make good 
Karma appears ridiculous. 

Those people are entitled to no sympathy who say, 
if their Karma has brought them into the pitiful con- 
dition in which they now are, they will have to wait 
for it to work itself out, for it is only their own activity 
that can relieve them. 

If you have a bad tenant in your house, you must 
get him out. 

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Every one has it in his power to repair the damage 
done by himself. No human act is irrevocable, but he 
who did the deed is the only one who can undo it. 
Evil deeds are only overcome by good deeds. 



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EMANATIONS. 

Every one throws out a psychical and a physical 
magnetism — and must, just as flowers, throw out 
their odors. 

We can produce such a chemical change in our or- 
ganism, by improved thought, that it can be detected 
by those around us. 

Every one gives out a psychic force, and that force 
penetrates everything he touches. 

When people gather in any place, they produce a 
psychic condition therein, which can be felt by all 
sensitives. 

Man is constantly evolving that which is within 
him. The very atmosphere is being saturated with 
our emanations; everything is permeated with the 
flux of our mentality. We are giving character even 
to the utensils which we employ; and, go where we 
will, we are constantly characterizing everything with 
which we come in contact. 

How do we give out our psychic emanations? In 
the same way that we breathe, in the same way that 
we perspire. Different people give out different 

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emanations; and the same people give out different 
emanations at different times. Your emanations can 
be anatyzed. One in a sensitive condition can detect 
emanations — just as when we come in contact with 
the perfume of a flower. 

Decisive people give out distinct emanations. Ac- 
cording to the individuality is the force of the emana- 
tion — like the odors of flowers, differing in quality 
and degree. 

We, every one of us, endow even inanimate things 
with psychical influences; there is such a thing as a 
virtuous pocket-handkerchief. You can throw some- 
thing of your goodness into your apron, so that oth- 
ers who may chance to wear it will feel the influence. 
Some of our psychical force goes into all the things 
we touch. 

By our thoughts — by our atmosphere — we can con- 
secrate the very air of our dwellings, and make them 
abodes of blessing. 

People in the best thought have only to go into a 
room, to consecrate it. 

Every thought we think in any place influences 
more or less the atmosphere of that place, and, to 
some extent, influences every one who comes into it, 
according to the degree of sensitiveness of the person. 

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People in a sad condition render the air depressing. 

Spirit, we admit, works through material means to 
ultimate expression. 

There is the great metaphysical demonstration — to 
use material things, and then show how, through or- 
dinary material channels, mental effects may be pro- 
duced. The psychical principle enables us to work 
cures, even through the use of material means. 

In regard to emanation from psychical power, 
the intention regulates the psychical force thrown 
out. 

Endow everything you give out with an electrical 
principle, then you can effect cures with external 
things; but unless you can endow them with the 
psychic principle, they will not produce cures. 

The true basis of healing scientifically is to be 
something, and then do something because you are 
something. It is utterly impossible to carry a spirit- 
ual influence anywhere without that spiritual influ- 
ence doing its work. The emanation from an indi- 
vidual is what it is because he is what he is. It does 
what it does because the individual is in the condition 
he is. All the work of giving treatments, as usually 
practiced, is a limited phase of the "gift of healing." 

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We can endow whatever we touch with a psychical 
quality which we impart to it ; and this psychical qual- 
ity can be imparted by the administerer to the re- 
ceiver. A great many people are healed through 
these agencies. 

It is this psychic faculty which has made it possible 
for the performance of the cures ascribed to shrines, 
amulets, magnetized paper, and fetiches of every sort. 

People are influenced by both the mental and phys- 
ical emanations which others have thrown into these 
receptacles. 

Every person gives out a psychical emanation, 
which is the direct result of his present condition. 

On the spiritual plane, one who is living in the 
higher thought constantly, projects that thought 
continually — just as beautiful flowers give out the 
fragrance which properly belongs to them. But you 
cannot get the odor of a rose from an onion. Aura 
partakes of the chemical constitution of the individ- 
ual, exactly as in the case of a flower. It is just so 
on the plane of thought — one must be something in 
order to do something; and being what he is, he does 
what he does. You simply give out what you have 
within — the result of what you really are. 

We always get our best thoughts most readily in 

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tranquil places where people have thrust out good or 
wise thoughts. 

MEDITATION. 

We give out whatever we possess; we cannot help 
it. Our emanations must be in accordance with our 
centre. We do not lose anything or become depleted 
by giving out emanations, for we receive on the one 
hand as we give on the other. 



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THE REAL EGO— ATMA. 

There are four distinct planes of life: the sensual, 
the intellectual, the moral and the spiritual. 

In the region of sense-consciousness, man lives a 
physical life ; a well-ordered physical life is proper, on 
the physical plane. 

There are two distinct elements manifested on all 
planes of human nature; the one the emotional, the 
other the intellectual; both of which need to be taken 
into account. 

What is life? We are not inquiring What are 
lives? but What is the one life? and how may we dis- 
cover it? Man is to reveal his soul. The soul is 
within, but is capable of unlimited expansion. The 
spirit cannot be put into man, but must be brought out 
of him. It is not as though the Holy Spirit were a 
surgeon, going to perform a surgical operation and 
take an old heart out. Within the old nature of the 
man is to be found the new. Like the evolution of 
the butterfly from the grub. 

I shall never find all there is to find in my soul — 
in this stage of existence. 

When you are introduced to your own soul, you 
will find it is simply your own higher self. 

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Properly speaking, there is no such thing as a phys- 
ical sense or a physical faculty. The five so-called 
bodily senses are only five modes of sensing things 
which can be sensed spiritually. 

It is I who smell — not my nostrils. I may feel 
through my fingers, etc. ; but I am the seer, the hearer, 
etc. My body has no ability to do anything. 

There is but one sensorium: there are five distinct 
ways by which unitary sensation expresses itself. 

The whole intellectual process is summed up when 
you say, "I know it!" 

"Melchizedek" does not refer to an individual, but 
to the life principle of man — the real Ego. 

Whatever is from eternity, is to eternity! 

Does everything live forever? No; only that 
which partakes of the quality of Divinity can live for- 
ever. 

Man is immortal by virtue of his possession of the 
in-dwelling principle of Divinity. 

Man has but one being,, but he may have many 
existences. 

The true Ego works through the brain, whether it 
be in a healthy or unhealthy condition- The brain is 

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simply the vehicle through which the intelligent en- 
tity expresses itself outwardly. 

"Atma" is the term for the Divinity within. 

Atma — the essential spiritual principle — may be- 
come so unfolded that it will entirely dominate the 
material senses, — it is thus unfolded in those who may 
be called "Mahatmas." Mahatmas are those in whom 
Atma (Divine principle) is unusually unfolded. 
Those through whom the soul is more than usually 
expressed. They stand upon mountain heights. A 
mountain is climbed through continuous, persistent 
effort. Upon the top of the mountain a vision is ob- 
tained which cannot be viewed by those on the plains ; 
from this similitude arises the title "Himalayan 
Brothers." 

To speak something into manifestation is to cause 
its inward form to appear in external shape. There 
is a distinction between form and shape. The ex- 
ternal shape is the outward similitude; the interior 
form remains forever the same. Therefore, shapes 
come and go, form never changes. 

As form ever exists, there never will or can come 
a time when there will be no human form. 

The shape can be spoken into existence through the 
operation of the Law of Vibration. Man can create 

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and destroy shapes, but man has no power over form 
— either to produce or annihilate it. 

Form itself is eternal, immortal; and the corre- 
sponding shape answers more or less perfectly to that 
form. 

Things which are unseen by the mortal eye are 
easily seen by the eye of the spiritual body. Things 
unheard by the fleshly ear are clearly heard by the 
spiritual ear. 

If people would only study the interior meaning 
of things, they would greatly improve their phrase- 
ology. 

The human structure renews itself from within. 
When our work on this plane is completed, we shall 
pass away; not that you will be obliged to go, your 
body will not be taken from you. There will be no 
ravaging disease, no pain; you will simply let your 
body go. It will be immediate yet tranquil disinte- 
gration. 

There is no such thing as a separation of principles 
at physical death. Death simply means dropping 
the material body. Death to old conditions and birth 
to the new, is a change which may take place in this 
world — a death unto carnality and birth unto spirit- 
uality. 

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There is no separation of principles in reality, but 
the transmutation of the lower into the higher. The 
moment we can see that there is a transformation or 
transmutation of the lower into the higher, we have 
solved the mystery, we have overcome death! 

There is no essential difference between the condi- 
tion of the spirit after dropping the body and the 
sleeping condition every night. If we could but un- 
derstand what we do when we are asleep — where we 
go when asleep — we could very well say that what is 
called death is but a continuation of sleep. 

According to the teaching of electrical physiology, 
the germ of our organization does not change; it 
vitalizes the new organization, which will be made up 
of new combinations of elements. 

All that is necessary to restore a person to health is 
to arouse the electrical germ to activity. A person 
in a state of perfect health — in what condition is he? 
The electrical germ at the centre of his being is so 
active that it fully vitalizes the whole system, and 
then life overflows; the individual is so vitalized, so 
electrified, that he radiates life wherever he goes. He 
is in a harmonious electrical condition. If such a one 
comes into your room, he will leave his psychical 
emanations there — wherever he has stopped, upon 
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than before, much brighter and more cheerful, after 
the visit of such a person. 

One who lives according to Divine Law, must have 
this overplus of vitality, and therefore is a spontan- 
eous healer. 

MEDITATION. 

Man, while a unit, manifests on many different 
planes. 

"King of Salem" means he who rules in Peace. 
No one can attain to this peace until he has found his 
soul. 

Our own soul is God's messenger in us ! 

Do as God tells you in your own soul! Take any 
question — no matter how trivial the inquiry may be 
— into the silence, and receive the Divine response. 
As people come more and more into the presence of 
their own higher selves, they will know where to find 
a counsellor and advisor, at all times. 

A man must get acquainted with his own soul be- 
fore he can be truly influential. One who does this 
can discover how to live in divine harmony in all 
conditions. 

Every psyche can take care of its own body if left 
to its work uninterruptedly. 

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GOLDEN MOTTO. 



Whatever we cannot destroy is good, for good 
only is permanent. 



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DREAMING TRUE. 

In dreams and visions to-day, as in olden times, 
man may see what is before him. Any one may be 
as Joseph. 

But anybody can dream — anybody can have a 
vision, like Pharaoh and his butler and baker- they 
could dream, but knew not the meaning thereof. 
Joseph not only could dream, but was able to see the 
interpretation of his own dreams, and theirs also. 

Some will say, "If a deluge is coming, what good 
does it do for us to know it? Are we benefited by 
crossing bridges before we come to them?" Such 
reasoning is no reasoning at all: it is specious fallacy 
and mere sophistry, for there is no analogy. 

In regard to the approaching seven years of scar- 
city : during the seven years of plenty, enough might 
have been saved up to last the nation through the 
years of famine; all might have made the same pro- 
vision that Joseph did. This is a pictorial lesson of 
vast import. 

The state of dreaming is an evidence of man's psy- 
chical consciousness. While most of us dream false 
or imperfectly, there are some who dream true ; we all 
dream true occasionally. 

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We talk of composing ourselves to go to sleep. 
You can go to bed with an uncomfortable thought, 
but do not allow yourself to go to sleep with it. 

No one should ever allow himself to sleep without 
first putting his mental house in order. Never allow 
the shadows of night to fall until you have put out 
of your mind every discordant thought. Fumigate 
your mental apartments by putting yourselves into 
right mental attitude; cleanse your mental apart- 
ments ; banish mental microbes ! 

Do not most of us retire at night in a flippant way? 
How many people think that it is really necessary to 
take thought about it? How many of us are careful 
about our mental clothing? We are very particular 
as to the care of our bodies, priding ourselves upon 
our cleanliness, putting on clean linen every day, etc. ; 
but that is only skin deep. What about our thoughts ? 
Of the two, it is better to have a clean heart and dirty 
hands, than clean hands and a dirty mind. A per- 
son's occupation may be of such a character that he 
is obliged to get his hands and clothes soiled; cir- 
cumstances greatly control these things. But there 
are no conditions in which we cannot govern our 
thoughts; circumstance, surrounding environment, 
matters not at all in this regard. 

Again — about sleeping with your head in a certain 

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position — this cannot always be regulated, as when 
travelling. People must give up all such puerilities, 
if they wish to become rightly related to the spiritual 
universe. It is bondage to things which causes all 
the sickness in the world. The mental condition at- 
tracts all things — according to its attitude. The 
mental condition must have its corresponding effect 
upon the physical condition. 

About dreams: bad dreams are usually attributed 
to late suppers, etc. ; it may be so, if a person is in the 
mental condition to make a supper disagree with him. 
It depends altogether upon the mental condition. 
But one thing is certain: it is never safe to retire to 
rest with even an uncomfortable thought! 

During the night — in the subjective, negative 
state — people do not know what influences they are 
open to. No end of mental and physical ailments 
result from bad dreams and insomnia. Wrong 
thought makes people ill through their dreams, caus- 
ing a feeling of illness or languor in the morning. 

We not only must remain positive during the day, 
but must maintain that mental attitude upon going to 
sleep. 

At night, we are in the condition to draw towards 
us whatever we please — by going to sleep in the 
proper mental state. 

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We are magnets ! Take a mental bath every night 
before going to bed. Put away from you everything 
that could be a magnet to attract what is bad or un- 
pleasant. 

The mind in a chaotic condition will cause confused 
dreams. One needs to be in a perfectly healthy, 
well-balanced condition, to be able to dream true — 
not dreaming of missing trains, and a good deal else 
that is hysteria. 

You cannot get into a condition for dreaming true 
until you are in peace and harmony with all around 
you. 

Instead of always jumping to the conclusion that 
people you misunderstand are unkind, calmly ask for 
an explanation; when you do this in a quiet, calm 
way, errors may very often be explained away. This 
calm, quiet attitude prevents great misery. 

It is a most dangerous thing to go to bed having a 
good cry over some grief or misunderstanding, draw- 
ing all the depressing influences that such a state 
must needs attract. The best way is to have an un- 
derstanding — clear the atmosphere; sometimes it 
takes an electrical storm to do this. 

Thinking that people wish to injure us is usually a 

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symptom of hysteria. Hysteria is the high road to 
insanity. 

If cats keep one awake, his mental state is not very 
far developed. We should not throw a boot- jack at 
the cats, but throw it at ourselves — mentally. 

By placing ourselves en rapport with any thing or 
any place we choose to select before going to sleep, 
we can draw to us during sleep the influences which 
we desire to relate ourselves with. 

A dream, ordinarily, is not a vision. A dream is a 
reflection; whatever we dream or image, we reflect. 
A true dream is a true reflection, while a false dream 
is a false reflection. The original meaning of a 
dream was "a vision of the night" — not what people 

usually call dreams in their present ignorance. 

Vision means a sight of something. We may have 
visions in the night — and also in the day, when we are 
awake. There is undoubtedly a distinction between 
a dream and a vision. Now, what is a dream? There 
is actually a dream-life. We travel while we sleep. 

We may travel, or remain stationary where we are ; 
but we can become related to anything we choose by 
concentrating our thought steadily upon it. 

Man is capable of living in other worlds during 
sleep. 

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When people talk of another world, they often 
think of a long, attenuated cord stretching out into 
space to other worlds. 

We should not say "the other world and this," but 
"the other side of this." 

Let us understand the distinction between the sub- 
jective and objective — man's dual mind. Let us go 
over onto the other side. When we are in the subjec- 
tive, let us go over to the objective; and when we are 
in the objective, let us go over to the subjective state. 

The subjective is simply the unseen. 

The word "unconscious" is greatly misapplied; in- 
stead, we should say, a person passes from one plane 
of consciousness to another. 

When people give puerile little interpretations to 
great words, they do things as absurd as did the Mil- 
lerites. 

Extended perception — the definition of this faculty 
of going to chosen places during sleep — may be de- 
veloped. When liberated from the mental state of 
thraldom, the mind can travel where it will. Thus, 
it is well to use the night-time for the process of at- 
traction. 

Do not try to go anywhere, in the sense of making 

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a journey, but resolve to relate yourself with what 
you wish to know. We can relate ourselves with 
anything in the universe; but full expectation must 
go with this effort. 

At night, we have withdrawn from the ordinary 
occupations of the day. That simple withdrawal 
gives us a chance to contemplate spiritual things, 
causes us to be receptive to the spiritual; it is thus 
that people have experiences during the night, which 
they do not have during the day. 

In regard to going to sleep in order to see one's 
self in some other position or plane, it is sometimes 
asked, "Why do we not see the angels during the day, 
as well as during the night?" Wiry do we not see 
the stars during the day? 

When we speak of regulating our dreams, we 
must always recollect that we cannot govern every- 
thing at first — on a psychic plane — as long as we are 
living here on the material plane in states of compara- 
tive bondage. 

We have first to gain victories over things lying 
nearest to us. 

We can get anything during sleep by holding for 
it before going to sleep — persistently. People may 
relate themselves, on the psychical plane, to the very 

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sources of knowledge, and so absorb information at 
night that they can use it by day. 

Knowledge during sleep soaks into one, as it were. 
It starts with the interior and works out if not inter- 
rupted, to the extremest plane of objective conscious- 
ness. 

These things which are taken into the subjective 
entity during sleep may not be apparent to the outer 
consciousness at first, but they will come forth as they 
are needed. 

Many things are not remembered on the objective 
plane, but the effect of our having undergone an ex- 
perience is just as real, whether we have any recollec- 
tion of it, or not. This is true in relation to true 
dreaming, when consciousness is functioning on the 
psychical plane. 

"We are such stuff 
As dreams are made of, and our little life 

Is rounded with a sleep." 



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PSYCHICAL UNFOLDMENT. 

Anybody can develop the psychic temperament 
who chooses. Some people are born with a much 
greater development than others, but it is embryotic 
in us all. We all have it potentially, but to express 
it is a matter of unfoldment. 

There are far more distinct temperaments than are 
usually regarded; very few people understand the 
psychic temperament. The psychic temperament is 
peculiar to itself; it is one which has to be judiciously 
cultivated, in order to get the best effects. It is the 
temperament which is necessary for unusual success 
along psychical lines. 

It requires some development of the psychical 
faculty to give mental treatments. The ability to 
give mental treatments successfully is a result of 
growth or development. 

Some children are born with the psychical faculty 
developed to a marked degree. People who possess 
this temperament are usually considered highly nerv- 
ous; but their nervousness is normal, not abnormal. 
It is simply that their nerves are unusually active; 

they may be highly strung. This unusual sensitive- 

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ness majr prove either a blessing or a curse. If it is 
physiological, it is a very great blessing ; if patholog- 
ical, it is a curse. The rate of vibration with such 
people is decidedly higher than the average; their 
pulses beat more quickly; their blood circulates more 
rapidly. If you take the temperature of the body of 
a person of the psychical temperament, you find the 
temperature and pulse above the normal standard. 
The pulse beats quickly, yet the person is perfectly 
well; it is not a pathological condition, it is purely 
physiological. 

It has been proved that some psychics can play 
tricks — for the sake of experiment — with their own 
pulse, putting it up very much higher than usual, and 
also putting it down below the normal rate with them. 

The development of the psychic faculty is of the 
utmost importance to the human family, because it 
can show us the inside of things we come in contact 
with. It teaches us to be utterly unprejudiced; not 
to judge from appearances in reading people, but 
through discernment of interior qualities. 

Woman, from her introspective position, has had 
more opportunities to unfold her psychical power than 
man; this explains why she has come to the front, in 
many directions at the present time. 

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Woman's function of maternity gives her a psychic 
development that man does not naturally so soon un- 
fold, owing to his different capacities. 

The opening up of the psychic faculty is sure to 
take place naturally when one is truly individualized. 

When we come into realization of our psychic 
power, we will find it only the intensification of pow- 
ers already possessed. 

The more we trust in any faculty the more we un- 
fold it. Allow the faculties to grow and increase 
naturally and normally, in the same way that every- 
thing in nature appears and develops. 

Instead of looking upon what we call psychic en- 
dowments and spiritual gifts as the property of the 
few, these will be revealed in the majority, in times to 
come. What are now called exceptional psychic en- 
dowments will become universal. Psychical endow- 
ments belong to the race, they pertain to humanity; 
but such powers need, as seeds require, opportuni- 
ties for development. 

The psychical element in man is as natural as the 
physical vision, or taste, or smell, or touch. 

The masses of people do not need special psychic 
gifts. Those who are satisfied without them do not 

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need them; but just as soon as we desire psychical 
powers, then we require them. 

There comes a time when these gifts within us stir 
themselves ; they make themselves felt. 

If psychical perception becomes universal, it will be 
of no use for any one to tell an untruth, because no 
one will be deceived by it. And it will be exactly the 
same in any endeavor to palm off the false for the 
true, in any case. Forgery, therefore, will be a lost 
art. 

The modus operandi of psychical development is 
exactly similar to that of physical development — con- 
stant use, but never over-exertion. Never strive to 
do work that is too difficult ; no straining of the facul- 
ties, but constant use and steady thought, fixity of 
purpose. Sight unfolds through recognition and ex- 
ercise. Even physical sight may be brought to phe- 
nomenal functioning by recognizing the gift — allow- 
ing it to develop by constant use and expectation. 

All the physical senses may be largely developed 
by training, even to a phenomenal degree. 

But, in all culture, there must be no strain after 
arduous effects; the moment of strain results in in- 
jury. 

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The psychic faculty unfolds wherever it has the 
opportunity to do so. The power is within every 
one; so there is no process for acquiring it, but there 
is a process for unfolding it. 

Many people organize what they call "developing 
circles." They "sit" together, holding each other's 
hands ; and expect — by some kind of physical contact 
— to develop some special spiritual gift. They are 
looking for the so-called psychical phenomena, which 
are producing so profound an impression upon many 
minds of the present age. But we find, to-day, that 
the more intelligent people who are interested in psy- 
chical research, are dispensing with extraneous 
methods. The gift merely needs to be permitted to 
unfold. 

Permission to unfold the psychic faculty is what 
every natural child wants when that child demands 
mental liberty. 

We do not recognize any danger in seeking psychic 
development. There is no danger when we learn to 
discipline our forces. But it is better to get beaten 
once in a while than never to obtain knowledge. 
There is danger in being prompted by an unworthy 
motive ; and that is all the danger there is. 

By deliberate cultivation of the psychic power, one 

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can do a greater amount of work with a smaller 
amount of energy. 

Whenever you endeavor to unfold any psychical 
power within you, put yourself into the easiest atti- 
tude possible. There is no need of making any ef- 
fort. Do not take any strained mental attitude. 

Wearing too much clothing, or anything which 
binds or presses, wastes the forces or prevents their 
harmonious outflow. 

It is not what we do, in the sense of our occupation, 
but it is the frittering away of our forces which 
wearies us. Some people are always moving their 
hands or their feet. This occasions loss of psychic 
power, shows an abnormal state of the mind, depletes 
the psychic force. 

It is certain that one can give undivided attention 
to only one thing at a time. 

We are not conscious of the subjective life going 
on all around us, when engaged with our usual avo- 
cations. 

On the psychical plane, we cannot be judged by 
our dress, or by any external appearance. 

As the universe expands to us, we shall enjoy all 
we have already had, and vastly more added. As our 

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faculties ever grow, more and more transcendent 
revelations will come to us, so that we shall grow to 
be so completely at home in the psychic realm that 
the veil of mystery will be rent in twain, and what 
was formerly regarded unknowable will be freely 
known. 

The possession of spiritual power of attainment is 
universal. It is not necessary that we should be ac- 
quainted with all the contents of our being. The 
containment of our nature is vastly more than our 
knowledge of that containment. We have within us 
abilities that we know not of. As we come to know 
these more and more, the universe becomes wider to 
us. 

On the psychical plane — on the subjective plane — 
the more you can see and hear the better. There are 
those who say it is wrong to attempt to pry into 
God's secrets. If God has any secrets that he doesn't 
wish us to know, we may be sure that he has guarded 
them so carefully that we could not pry into them if 
we wished. 

Whatever psychic endowment one may possess, let 
him give it freedom, and never allow himself to be in- 
fluenced by the scarecrowism in the world. There is 
no danger in searching into the psychic realm, if one's 
motives be pure. It will unfold more and more. 

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It will drive away the blues and sickness ; it will do 
away with all sense of loss and bereavement; and it 
will enable us to acknowledge that every wonder of 
the olden times can be duplicated at the present day. 

Wherever you can have the most privacy — when- 
ever you can feel quiet, alone, or in company with 
some congenial friend or friends — put yourself into 
the most comfortable attitude, and allow yourself to 
drink in whatever may come to you. Let there be 
no straining, no forced exercise of the will, no trying 
to grasp something difficult to catch, but a perfectly 
quiet, receptive attitude, as of one who enters a thea- 
tre to witness dissolving views. The curtain has not 
yet risen, you see now only the blank screen; as you 
sit quietly in your place, you make observations. 

If you like, take — in the bright light — a glass of 
pure water, and watch for what may appear upon its 
surface. The fixing of the eyes on the water secures 
the needed concentration. All such things may be 
of some aid, for the sake of helping the concentration 
of the mind. 

Sit quietly waiting for what may come; make ob- 
servation of what comes. Make no definite state- 
ment until it has already appeared ; then, when it has 
clearly come, merely make note of it. 

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MEDITATIONS. 

We carry onto the psychic plane exactly what we 
encourage and foster on the material plane. 

When a man is unfolded on the psychic plane, the 
powers he has heretofore possessed become infinitely 
expanded. 

Every spiritual endowment is just as naturally the 
right of mankind as intellectual or physical endow- 
ments. 

Every man who truly seeks it shall find the mystic 
key, whereby he can cause the spiritual gate within 
him to turn on its hinges and reveal to him his real 
immortal selfhood. 

It is of no use for anybody to attempt to use psy- 
chic power until he is truly individualized. When 
you are truly individualized, you have realized that 
you dare to go directly to the heart of the universe — 
directly to the Infinite Spirit. 

As long as one submits to any form of tyranny, one 
cannot become truly psychic, much less spiritual in 
the higher sense. 

All processes are mental; all victories are mental, 
and all defeats are mental. That cause which ap- 

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pears material can be at most only a secondary cause. 
Accompanying phenomena should not be confounded 
with consequent phenomena. 

There is no use in trying to force anything until its 
time comes. When the hour for anything strikes the 
will to procure it is present. 



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SPIRITISM. 

Clairvoyance and clairaudience have always been 
conspicuous among those who were prophets. Clair- 
voyance may cover nearly all the territory of spirit- 
ualism. 

It is not probable that spirits on higher planes know 
anything about our material conditions, but they read 
our thoughts. 

When people endeavor to become mediums — as 
generally understood — the manifestations they re- 
ceive may be genuine, but they try to get the spirit 
world to come down to their state, not to bring them- 
selves to a higher plane. The higher spiritualism is 
the reverse. Only the lower spiritualism is trying to 
bring the spirits down to the earth plane. Instead of 
trying to get the spiritual to manifest to the senses, 
we should endeavor to ascend — not asking the spirit- 
ual world to descend. 

The lower spiritualism is merely catering to our 
senses. 

The most truly spiritual persons never get any 
physical manifestations whatever, never see anything 
with the material eye. 

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Spiritism 

When you come down to material sense, what mes- 
sages do you receive? Only platitudes! 

Think of the knowledge to be gained from the 
higher relationship ! When we come into that higher 
spiritual relationship, we may become inventors, ar- 
tists, authors, on planes not yet imagined. 

The mere fact of people going into particular 
places will not attract spiritual influences. It is the 
mental state, the motive, which always serves as the 
magnet. 

The ordinary theory in the world is that there is 
necessarily invocation, in order to bring the spirits 
near to us; we hear of "spirit return," etc. If people 
only understood how to express themselves, they 
would be able to approach the subject intelligently. 

We have nothing whatever to do with inviting 
"spirit return." The whole thing that concerns us, 
as scientific investigators is a change in our own con- 
sciousness, affording conditions for spiritual percep- 
tion and demonstration. It is only a question of the 
opening up of our own perception. 

There is an element of disordered imagination, a 
great deal of hysteria, in so-called spiritual and psy- 
chic experiences, until the desire for mere phenomena 
yields to a genuine craving for absolute truth. 

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Glints of Wisdom 

Beware how you have any dealings with the "famil- 
iar spirits" of self-seeking persons. The expression 
"familiar spirits" is a very significant one. This is 
applicable where the motive is money, or other un- 
worthy object. 

Speaking of "obsession," it is because people ac- 
knowledge everything but the universal spirit of 
good that they are subject to obsessions. 

It is not to be denied that the phenomena of obses- 
sion are genuine. We believe the accounts in the 
Bible — that undeveloped influences were present and 
that Jesus and his apostles turned them out. But 
the cause for any such experience is nothing but false 
belief. The recognition of truth is the only antidote. 

Supposing one is very sensitive or mediumistic, 
why cannot such an one polarize himself, so that he 
will draw toward him always the good? Right polar- 
ization is most important in mediumship. 

Let people place their confidence in the good and 
in the true. This is what everyone must do in order 
to put himself into right relationship with the uni- 
verse. 

Divided attention has a great deal to do with all 
unpleasant psychic phenomena. When we put our- 
selves into the subjective condition with the deliber- 

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ate intention of gaining knowledge, it will come to us. 

You have only yourself to blame if you have dis- 
agreeable influences around you; you can keep only 
what you attract. 

It is not to be understood, however, that these in- 
fluences might not still be in your vicinity ; they could 
be near that you might teach them. 

We are sure that there are individual communica- 
tions with spirits as we are sure of anything. 

MEDITATION. 

If people are spiritually developed, they cannot be 
deceived; when holding for the truly spiritual and 
nothing else. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

We cannot conceive an idea of a state of life that 
is not expressed somewhere. 



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ELECTIVE AFFINITY. 

Once grasp the Law of Elective Affinity, and the 
cause of spiritual phenomena will be clearly under- 
stood. 

We do not usually come into psychical relation 
with things, but with people; and we may often see 
objects surrounding the persons in psychical relation 
with us. 

We may not be able to put ourselves en rapport 
with mere things, but with persons who may be in cer- 
tain places, at certain times; and through our har- 
mony with them we can become familiar with their 
surroundings. 

We should endeavor to put ourselves in relation 
with some person and go with him, when we wish to 
see a certain place, or obtain certain knowledge. It 
is one human being en rapport with another human 
being, not a man with an inanimate object. This 
rapport may be entirely unconscious or involuntary 
on both sides. 

Two persons may be in natural affinity, like two 
harps attuned together; if one is struck, the other 
responds. This sympathy or affinity is not the re- 

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Elective Affinity 

suit of flesh and blood relationship; it is a spiritual 
kinship. We can encourage it; we can intensify it, 
perhaps ; but it must be inate to begin with. 

We get results proportionate to our mental states. 
We can put ourselves en rapport, at will, with what- 
ever we desire to communicate with, if we take the 
right mental attitude. 

REFLECTION. 

One prime requisite is always necessary — the per- 
fect love of truth; we are then invading the psychic 
realm in safety. 



155 



AURAS— PSYCHICAL ENVIRONMENT. 

Most people when they talk of environment, sur- 
roundings, and circumstances — which all mean the 
same — refer to these things as something over which 
they can exercise no control, as governing factors in 
their lives. You can make your own environments, 
surroundings and circumstances. You are surround- 
ed with a psychic envelope which is primarily your en- 
circling habitation. 

The aura belongs to the individual just the same as 
feathers belong to a bird. 

It is the particular aura of the individual that con- 
ditions his work. If you know how to generate an 
aura, you can go to work and generate any circum- 
stance you please. 

You can bring into your daily life the things and 
places you will, if you go out on the psychical current. 
You will find many circles, many planes of existence. 
When you get onto a plane above your ordinary one, 
your soul is at home on that plane; to the psychical 
faculty that plane is real and seen. 

If you allow yourself to go out onto the psychical 
current — if you go naturally — you will feel a great 

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Auras — Psychical Environment 

deal stronger, have a much greater power of endur- 
ance, with much less expenditure of force; you will 
generate force much more rapidly and recuperate 
much more readily. 

When you can read the auras of different people, 
you can tell at once if you can help them. If their 
auras blend with yours, there can be psychical relation 
to mutual advantage, but not otherwise. 

Those with coarse auras may heal a great many 
people on the animal plane; but in all cases of high- 
strung people they would fail. Very sensitive people 
could not bear such a one to come into their presence. 
Different people are reached on their different planes ; 
that is why no ordinary healers can reach all cases. 

When you feel your aura draw back into yourself, 
the conditions are not harmonious; you will not blend 
with any person from whom you feel like drawing 
away instinctively. It is always well to respect this 
instinct. 

If you can realize the aura, where the auras of dif- 
ferent individuals blend, there it is easy to effect tele- 
pathic communication; and the same applies equally 
to mental healing. 

We find as we study into the psychic realm that we 
can wear just what we please psychically. 

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Glints of Wisdom 

On the external plane, everything corresponds ex- 
actly to the psychical plane. 

The word "raiment" is a varied form of " raiment." 
It is, properly speaking, rayment, radiation. The 
halo or nimbus encircling the head of a saint is in 
accord with this idea. 

This radiation must proceed from the individual 
himself. 

A person can be mentally surrounded by whatso- 
ever radiation he himself gives out. 

Nothing is here for us that we do not take in 
through our own perception. 

Every one can make his own immediate environ- 
ment. Can clothe himself with his own shell. 

We can also, by means of this aura, gain access to 
the external world, so that we can take into our own 
world what we wish, and keep out whatever we do 
not desire. Man may really be compared to a bi- 
valve ; he can shut out or take in whatever he pleases. 

We make our own world in two ways. By radiat- 
ing we develop from within outward; we unfold and 
give out, and surround ourselves with our own radia- 
tions. Also, we attract to us whatever we desire to 
possess, provided we confidently expect it. 

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Auras — Psychical Environment 

Just as we can take what suits us from the differ- 
ent kinds of food placed before us, so we can draw 
from the atmosphere the kind of emanations suited to 
our various needs. 

Any one can choose his own surroundings, on the 
psychic plane. 

There is a spiritual world in which we are now liv- 
ing. When we are concentrated upon any special 
object, we are oblivious to all other objects for the 
time being. There is a scientific reason for this which 
immediately suggests itself to the reflective student. 

MEDITATION. 

Whatever we want is a little more than what we 
already have — something that if we did not have it 
within us, we should not conceive of. 

The moment people undertake to make their own 
world, they can have any kind of a world that they 
like, for one's own world is a surrounding atmos- 
phere, a portable environment. 

GOLDEN MOTTO. 

The reality of everything is spiritual. 



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Tradition, Origin and Early History of Freemasonry. 
An elaborate account of the traditions which form the basis of the 
degrees in Freemasonry and their coincidence with the Ancient 
Mysteries; also the origin of the Society of Operative Masons and 
its transformation into a Speculative Fraternity; with a brief history 
of the Order, and its rituals and customs. By A. T. C. Pierson 
and Godfrey W. Steinbrenner. 540 pgs. 6 1 /2 x 9 1 /4 Illustrated. 

No. 24213 2.50 

Washington and His Masonic Compeers. An interesting 
and reliable work, abounding in facts and incidents pertaining to 
Washington's Masonic life. A part of his history, entirely omitted 
by most of his biographers, brought to light by diligent research 
among the Masonic records and documents of the past century. 
Containing fine Masonic portrait of Washington and numerous 
other illustrations. No. 24301 1.75 







A SELECTED ASSORTMENT OF BOOKS 

Historical, Fraternal, Symbolical, Mystic, Astrologic, 

Occult, Psychic, Spiritualistic, Optimistic, Philosophic, 

Masonic, New Thought, Etc. 

Ahrinziman, The Strange Story of. As told by himself, 
after a period of over 2000 years; through the super-conscious- 
ness of Anita Silvani. The philosophy of this great Mystic and 
Persian Ruler, what Life hath taught him of the soul — on Earth, 
in the Abyss, and in the Heavens — A New Pilgrims Progress 
Arabian Nights, Paradise Lost, Wanderings in Spirit, and Para- 
dise Won. No es on Obsession and Mediumship. Preface by 
Frederick W. Thurstan M. A. of Christs College, Cambridge. 

"To each one comes life's lesson in a different form: Let 
him that would learn the meaning of this story attend to these 
words that he may the better understand, and let him that is the 
idle hearer of a tale pass them by." Two volumes, combined 
in one book of 49 chapters. Illustrated with a portrait of Ahr- 
inziman and a Vision in the Desert. 284 pages 5/2 x 7Vl No. 

22026 1.00 

Altar in the Wilderness, The. In seven chapters — The Golden 
Age, The Exile, Life in Death, The Conflict. The Wilderness, 
Illumination, The Temple, — representing the Seven Spiritual Ages 

of Man. Ethelbert Johnson. Cloth, No. 24231 50 

Paper, No. 24235 .25 

Ben Hur, a Tale of the Christ. The Great Christian Drama. 
Gen. Lew Wallace. No. 22076 1.50 

Book of the Master, The. A clue to the mysterious religion of 
Ancient Egypt. W. Marsham Adams. Cloth, No. 22166 . . . 1.25 

Brotherhood. Nature's Law.. Burcham Harding. No. 22176 .50 

Brother of the Third Degree. An interesting and facinating 
story of the thrilling experiences of an earnest occult student on 
his way upward to those sublime heights of Universal Love and De- 
votion to Humanity, attained only by the true Initiates of the Great 
White Brotherhood — a vivid picture of life in the famous occult 
schools of Paris and the Far East; explaining much which has so 
long been veiled in mystery. W. L. Carver. 377 pages, Cloth. 

No. 22161 1.50 



Constructive Psychology. The Constructive Principle of 
Character Building. Dr. J. D. Buck. 32° No. 22296 1.00 

Culture of Concentration. Occult Powers and their acquire- 
ment. Wm. Q. Judge. No. 22266 10 

Discovery of the Soul, The. Throwing light on the path of 
progressive man; leading through mysticism to the discovery of 
those unused powers within the soul, which duly appropriated 
give expression to the Divine in Man. Floyd B. Wilson. 

No. 22306 1.00 

Harmonies of Evolution. This work marks out a new path in 
the treatment of the so-called Occult in Nature, attempting to explain 
rather than to mystify and to illustrate and elucidate the correlation 
of spiritual and physical forces in Nature, Florence Huntley. 

463 pgs. No. 22716 2.00 

Hermes and Plato. The mysteries of Egypt and of Eleusis. 
Edouard Shure. No. 22856 1.00 

initiation, The Way of, or How to Attain Knowledge of the 
Higher Worlds. Rudolf Steiner , Ph. D. Americanized from the trans- 
lation by Max Gsyi. Notes by Edouard Schure. A most valuable 
and natural guide in a matter between you and yourself. New 
large type. Paper. No. 24280, .75 No. 24276 .... 1.00 

Initiation and its Results. Rudolf Steiner, Ph. D. A sequel 
to the Way of Initiation. These works, in the plainest and clearest 
way, give more instruction in occult knowledge than any yet 
published. Mystics, and the Theosophic Press indorse them in 
the highest terms. New large type. No. 22976 1.00 

In Tune with the Infinite. Ralph Waldo Trine. Bound in 
Japanese style or special silk. No. 22996 1.25 

Isis Unveiled. About 1500 pages. Portrait of the Author. 
H P. Blavalsky. No. 23016 2 Vols. 6x9 7.00 

Josephus. The authentic works and life of this great Jewish his- 
torian and celebrated warrior. Translated by Wm. Winston, M.A. 
1055 pgs., attractively bound and illustrated. 7V^x9 1 /2> 

No. 23061 1.75 

Kingdom of Love, The. Henry Frank. Beautifully ex- 
pressed, wholesome, helpful and inspiring essays. 245 pgs. 

No. 23086 1.00 

Koran, The. Commonly called the Alkoran of Mohammed (the 
JVlohammedian Bible). 559 pgs. No. 23071 1.50 

Kirshna and Orpheus, the Great Initiates of the East and West. 
Edouard Schure. No. 23106 1.25 



Last Great Initiate, Jesus the. Edouard Schure. The Essenes, 
St. John, etc. No. 23056 1.00 

Life and Writings of Dr. Rob't. Fludd, the English 
Rosicrucian. /. B. Craven. Cloth. No. 23206 2.50 

Light on the Path. A treatise for the personal use of those 
who are unfamiliar with the Eastern Wisdom but desire to enter 

within its influence. CM. Cloth. No 23166 50 

Leather. No. 24167 75 

Man Limitless. "A study of the possibilities of man when act- 
ing under infinite guidance with which he is in absolute touch." 

Floyd B. Wilson. No. 23531 1.25 

Mastery of Mind in the Making of a Man, The. A 

searching analysis and exposition of the power of mind in body- 
building and the forming of personality. Henry Frank. 250 pgs. 

No. 23306 1.00 

Myrtle Baldwin. A novel of great interest, especially to the 
Fraternity, as it is full of Masonic principles. Bro. Charles Clark 
Munn, author of The Hermet, etc. 510 pgs. 5|4x7|/2- Illus- 
trated, green cloth, black and gold stamps. An excellent gift. 

No. 23586 1.50 

Mystical Life of Ours, This. Ralph Waldo Trine. 
No. 24236 1.00 

Occult Science in India, and among the Ancients, with an 
account of their Mystic Initiations and History of Spiritualism. 
Louis Jacolliot. Cloth. No. 23715 2.50 

Occultist's Travels, An. Willy Reichel. Cloth. 
No. 33726 1.00 

Paths to Power. "The struggling will gain strength — the 
doubting assurance — and the despairing hope, from this book." 
Fifteenth edition. Floyd B. Wilson. No. 23796 1.00 

Philosophy of Fire, The. "There is nothing new under the 
sun." Fire Philosophy is the foundation of all True Initiation, and 
all Mystic and Occult Fraternities, as well as the Secret Doctrine 
and Ancient Mysteries. Atlantis, its Beauty, and its Fall. The 
Templars, and Fire Philosophers. The Therapeutae and Essenes 
and their Initiation. Second and very much enlarged edition, 
contains the Rosicrucian Fire Philosophy according to Jennings. 
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No. 23806 1.50 



Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries. Edouard Schure. 
No. 23811 1.50 

Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx. A most interesting 
and valuable work — the result of extensive research among the 
ruined palaces, tombs and temples, and careful study of the signs, 
symbols and ancient manuscripts of the Mayas of prehistoric 
Yucatan ; showing evidences of a civilization antedating, by cen- 
turies, that of the Eastern Hemisphere, and giving a reasonable 
solution of that mystery of the ages — the Origin and Meaning of 
the Egyptian Sphinx. Augustus Le Plongeon. Beautifully illustrated 
with full page half-tone prints, from photographs taken by the 
author while exploring those ancient remains. No. 23851. Reduced 
from the Authors price 6.00 to 4.75 

Queen Moo's Talisman. The Fall of the Maya Empire. A 

beautiful Poem with Introduction and Explanatory Argu- 
ment. Alice Le Plongeon. Profusely illustrated. Cloth. 

No. 23841 1.50 

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The. With 12 full page illus- 
trations in colors and tinted border designs, 6x9. Deckel edge, 

No. 23936 1.25. Watered Silk, No. 23940 2.00 

Limp Leather, No. 23937 2.00 

Secret Doctrine, The. The Synthesis of Science, Religion, 
and Philosophy. 6x9 About 1500 pgs with Index. Vols. I 

and II No. 24066. . . 10.00 Vol. Ill No. 24067. . . 5.00 

Secret Doctrine, Abridged. Hillaid. No. 24031 . . . 2.00 

Sermon on the Mount, and other Extracts from the New 
Testament. A verbatim translation from the Greek with notes on 
the Mystical or Arcane Sense. James M. Pryse. Cloth. 

No. 24076 60 

Servant in the House, The. A beautiful and uplifting drama 
of Brotherly Love Charles Rann Kennedy. No. 23966... . 1.25 

Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, The. The wonderful 
arts of the old wise Hebrews, taken from the Mosaic books of the 
Kabbalah and the Talmud, for the good of mankind. 100 pgs. 
Paper, No. 24040 75 

Story of the Other Wise Man, The. A beautiful nar- 
rative. Henry Van Dyke. Exquisitely printed and bound. Cloth, 
No. 23961, .50. and Limp Leather. No. 23962 1.00 

Temple, The. Its Ministry and Services at the Time of Jesus 
Christ. Rev. Dr. Eidersheim. 308 pgs. No. 24201 1.50 



The Tabernacle. Its History and Structure. Rev. W. Shaw 
Caldecott. Cloth, 51/4 x V/l, 230 pgs. No. 24176 1.75 

Thoughts for the Occasion. A Manual of Historical Data and 
Facts, Helpful in Suggesting Themes and in Outlining Addresses 
for the Observance of Timely or Special Occasions of the Ma- 
sonic, Odd Fellows and various other Orders. Compiled by 
Franklin Noble, D. D. 576 pgs. cloth. No. 24216 2.00 

Through Silence to Realization. This work embodies a 
system of instruction for mental growth and attainment of ideals. 
Floyd B. Wilson. 5 1 / 2 x7 1 / 2 . No. 24241 1.00 

Voice of the Silence, and Other Chosen Fragments from the 
Book of the Golden Precepts for the Daily Use of Lanoos. B. P. 
Blavatsky. Cloth. No. 24266, .50. Leather. No. 24267 .75 

W. J. COLVILLE'S BOOKS. 

A Selection of the Most Popular Works by This Great Author and Well 
Known Lecturer in Europe, America, and Australia. 

Ancient Mystery and Modern Revelation. A wonderful 
new work. By W. J. Colville. — The book, which will be of con- 
siderable size, will aim to introduce selected gems from Oriental 
literature together with philosophical interpretations of the most 
disputed Bible texts, and it will also present highly condensed 
biographical accounts of the Esoteric Schools of Antiquity and the 
characteristics of their founders. To every liberal-minded Bible 
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to-day the work as a whole must appeal as one of more than 
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Six copies to any single address on receipt of $5.00. 

Birthdays, The Significence of, or Our Places in the Univer- 
sal Zodiac. W. J. Colville Leatherette. No. 22191 .50 
Paper No. 22195 40 

Dashed Against the Rock. A scientific novel, illustrated 
with many remarkable diagrams. W. J. Colville. Cloth. 

No. 22316 . m 75 

Fate Mastered-Destiny Fulfilled. Three stirring essays on 
live issues. A very tasteful presentation volume. W. J. Colville. 

Cloth: No. 22476 30 



Glints of Wisdom, or Helpful Sayings for Busy Moments. Ab- 
stracts from Lectures by W. J. Colville. An encyclopedia of 
psychological laws contained in an endless variety of subjects. 
Leatherette, flexible. No. 22671. .40. Paper No. 22675 .30 

Health from Knowledge; or the Law of Correspondences as 
Applied to Healing. W. J. Colville. Leatherette. No. 22745 .50 

Life and Power from Within. An excellent book, embracing 
the most advanced mental-physical teaching and the simplest rules 
for the guidance of daily life, according to New Thought standards. 

W.J Colville. Cloth. No.23151 75 

Living Decalogue, The. 12 Expository Lectures. W. J. 

Colville Leatherette. No. 23156 50 

Lectures, by W. J. Colville, on various subjects : Atlantis, The 

Way of Initiation, Initiation and its Results. Symbolism — Its use 

and Value, etc. Send for list, each 10/. 3 for 25 

Mental Therapeutics, Elementary Text Book of. Twelve 

Practical Lessons. W. J. Colville. No. 22420 25 

Old and New Psychology. Twenty-four chapters, including 

explanatory essays on many subjects of vital interest to all teachers 

and students. W. J. Colville.Cloth. No.,23766 1.00 

Onesimus Templeton. A vivid romance, tracing the evolution 

of a soul from bondage to liberty. W. J. Colville. Cloth. 

No. 23771 50 

Throne of Eden, The. Twenty-six chapters presenting im- 
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system of preventing as well as healing diseases. W. J. Colville. 

Cloth. No. 24186 1.00 

Universal Spiritualism. Spirit Communion in all ages among 
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interested in the question of human immortality. W. J. Colville. 

Cloth. No. 24256 1.00 



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The Path of Prosperity. A way leading out of undesir- 
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Entering the Kingdom. That heavenly kingdom within 
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22001 A. A. S. R., Book of the. McClenachan 3.00 

2201 1 Adoptive Rite, revised, enlarged. Macoy 1.00 

22021 Ahiman Rezon, General. Sickels 2.00 

22024 Morocco binding, gilt edges 3.50 

22026 Ahrinziman, An Occult Story. Anita Silvani. ... 1.00 

22036 Akin's Manual of the Lodge 1.25 

22006 All These Things Added. Allen 1.00 

24231 Altar in the Wilderness. Johnson. Cloth 50 

24235 Paper 25 

22051 Amaranth Odes 20 

22055 Paper 15 

22041 Amaranth Ritual, revised, enlarged. Macoy. . 1.00 

22081 Ancient Const. Reprint 1723. Music. Anderson 1.00 

22056 Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry 1. 00 

22060 Paper. Rev. Charles H. Vail 75 

22071 Annotated Constitutions. Simons 1.00 

23726 An Occulist's Travels. Reichel. Cloth 1.00 

22086 Ancient Mystic Oriental' Masonry. Clymer. ... 1.50 

221 10 Ancient Order of Hurcules {Burlesque) , 6 copies 5.00 

22096 Ante Room Talks, Bloomer, 1.00 

22091 Antiquities of Freemasonry. Oliver 1.50 

22101 Antiquities of the Orient Unveiled, Redding... 1.50 

22146 Arcane Schools-Hist. of Fmsy. John Yorker. . . 4.75 

22016 As a Man Thinketh. /. Allen. Cloth, 4^x7^ • -50 

22017 Leather 75 

22018 Watered Silk 75 

22019 Special Gift Edition 75 

22020 Paper 15 



22076 Ben Kur. Wallace 1.50 

22141 Bible Testimony to Theosophical Truths 10 

22175 Biography of Mrs. Babington 25 

22191 Birthdays, Their Significance. Colville 50 

22195 Paper 40 

22001 Book of A. A. S. R. McClenachan 3.00 

22146 Book of I. O. O. F. Forms 1.00 

22151 Book of the Chapter. Mackey, . 1.60 

22166 Book of the Master. Adams. Cloth 1.25 

22176 Brotherhood. Harding 50 

22186 Brotherhood of Healers. /. Macbeth. Cloth. . .50 

22161 Brother of Third Degree. Carver, 1.50 

22067 Buechners Fraternal Register, vest pock, leather. .60 

22181 Busbee's Digest, I. O. O. F 4.00 

221 5 1 Chapter, Book of the, Mackey, Cloth 1.60 

22221 Chapter Music. Ilsley 15 

22230 Charges of a Mason. Chase 15 

22201 Christmas, Easter and Burial Services, K. T 45 

22202 Leather. Rev. Cornelius L. Twing 75 

22204 Morocco 1.00 

22205 Paper 35 

22210 Coles Initiation Ritual {Burlesque), 6 copies.. 3.75 

2401 1 Colorado Grand Lodge Monitor. Foster. Cloth.. .75 

24012 Leather 1.00 

22246 Concise Cyclopedia of Freemasonry. Hawkins. . 1.00 

2221 1 Concordia, words only Ilsley, 25 

22281 Constitution and History, A. A. S. R 2.00 

22295 Constitutions, O. E. S., Africa, paper 25 

22236 Cosmogony of Evolution. Ingalese. Cloth 2.00 

22266 Culture of Concentration. W. Q. Judge 10 

22296 Constructive Psychology. Buck 1.00 

22231 Council Monitor, Chase, 1.00 

22241 Council Monitor. Mackey, 2.00 

22251 Craft Masonry. . Cunningham. 1.00 

22254 Morocco 1.50 

22261 Cross Masonic Chart, Revised 1.75 

22256 Crucifixion, by an Eye Witness 1.00 

22241 Cryptic Masonry. Mackey 2.00 

2241 1 Cyclopedia of Fraternities. Stevens 4.50 

22271 Cushing's Manual, Parliamentary Law 75 

22316 Dashed Against the Rock. Colville 75 



22340 Daughters of Sphinx (Burlesque), 6 copies 5.0© 

22301 Diagram of Parliamentary Rules. Smith 50 

22304 Morocco, parchment chart 1.00 

22306 Discovery of the Soul 1 .00 

22346 Divine Pedigree of Man. T. J. Hudson 1.50 

22331 Dream Child. Huntley 75 

2231 1 Drew's Monitor, small 60 

22351 Early History and Antiquities. Fort, 3.50 

22366 Early History and Proceedings, N. Y. Vol. I 2.50 

22361 Early History, New York. Ross, 2.50 

22371 Eden to Malta. Better, 1.50 

22381 Egyptian Symbols. Portal, Simons 1.00 

22421 Egypt the Cradle of Msry. de Clifford, 2 vol. . . 6.75 

22423 Half American morocco, 2 vol 7-5° 

22424 Full American morocco, 2 vol 10.00 

22425 Full Persian morocco, 1 vol 10.00 

22981 Election and Installation 40 

22985 Paper 25 

22376 Emerson's Essays 1.00 

22391 Ency. and History. Oliver & Macoy. Cloth. . . 2.75 

22392 Library, sheep, marble edge 3.00 

22395 Half American Russia 3.25 

22393 Half American Morocco ,. 3.50 

22397 Full American Russia * 4.25 

22394 Full American Morocco 5.75 

23398 Full Persian Morocco 8.50 

22401 Encyclopedia, Mackey, McClenachan, cloth 4.50 

22402 Sheep 6.00 

22405 Half Russia, Gilt top 6.50 

22404 Full morocco 8.00 

22406 Two Volume Edition 11.00 

2241 1 Encyclopedia of Fraternities. Stevens, 4.50 

22356 Entering the Kingdom. /. Allen. 50 

22357 Leather 75 

22358 Watered Silk 75 

22 359 Special Gift Edition 75 

22360 Paper 15 

22396 Evolution of the Soul. T. J. Hudson 1.50 

22476 Fate Mastered 30 

22465 Female Masonry, "A la Lease" 50 

22091 Five Grand Periods of Masonry. Oliver 1.50 



22471 Five Jewels of the Orient, The. Burton 1.00 

22490 Floral March. Simpson 40 

22481 Floral Work. Bunnell 40 

22485 Paper 25 

24006 Florida Monitor, Gr. Lodge Comm 75 

24007 Leather 1.00 

22530 Freemasonry and Jesuitry 15 

22571 Freemason's Monitor Sickels 1.00 

22572 Same, Lodge, to Comdy., leather 1.50 

225 1 1 Freemason's Monitor. Thornberg 1.25 

22512 Leather 2.00 

22501 Freemason's Monitor. Webb. Cloth 75 

22502 Leather 1 .00 

22556 Freimaurer's Handbuch. Committee 1.00 

22557 Leather 1.25 

22551 Freimaurer's Handbuch, small 60 

22581 Fundamental Truths. N. D. Cloth 50 

22156 Funeral Services. Simons — Macoy 35 

22160 Paper bound 25 

22651 Gem of Song, O. E. S. Pitkin & Mathews. .... .50 

22655 Paper 25 

22021 General Ahiman Rezon, a Large Monitor, 2.00 

22024 Same, morocco and gilt. Sickels — Macoy 3.50 

22656 Genius of Freemasonry. Buck 1.00 

22671 Glints of Wisdom. W. J. Colville 40 

22675 Paper 30 

22661 Great Work. T. K 2.00 

22645 Guide to Chapter. Sheville, Gould, limp cloth. .75 

22641 Same in cloth and gilt binding 1.00 

22642 Leather bound with flap 1.25 

22644 Bound in imitation cowhide morocco 1.50 

22646 Large library size, cloth bound 1.50 

22649 Same in imitation morocco 2.00 

22676 Guild Free Masons, Anc. Const. Charges.... 1.00 

223 1 1 Hand Book of Freemasonry. Drew 60 

2271 1 Harmonia. Music, Cutler 25 

22716 Harmonies of Evolution. Huntley 2.00 

22741 Health from Knowledge. Colville 75 

22745 Leatherette 50 

22851 Heavenly Life. James Allen. Goth 50 

22852 Leather 75 



22853 Watered Silk 75 

22854 Special Gift Edition 75 

22855 Pa per 15 

22746 Hebrew Bible in English. $1.00 to 20.00 

22856 Hermes and Plato, Schure 1.00 

22721 Hermetic Writing of Paracesus. Waite. 2 vol... 18.00 

22866 Heroines of Jerico. Ceremonies. Cloth. Dickson .75 

22861 Heroines of Jerico. Ritual, Cloth. Dickson . . .50 

22723 Historical Landmarks. Oliver 4.00 

22726 Historical Sketch — Morton Commandery 2.00 

22731 History and Power of Mind. Ingalese. Cloth. . 2.00 

22751 History of A. &. A. Scottish Rite. Folger, 3.00 

22791 History of Colored Freemasonry. Grimshaw... 1.25 

22771 History of Freemasonry, Concise. Gould. Cloth 2.75 

22772 Library — sheep 4.00 

22773 Half Morocco 3.75 

22774 Full Morocco 4.75 

22775 Levant 8.50 

22761 Hist, of Freemasonry & Concordant Orders.... 4.50 

22763 Half Morocco. Stillson & Hughan 5.50 

22764 Full Morocco 6.50 

22765 Levant 10.00 

22780 History of Frmsy. Gould, 6 vol. Yz calf 25.00 

22779 Morocco. (Shopworn, sets only) 30.00 

22781 History of Freemasonry. Mitchell, 2 vols 4.00 

22782 Library — sheep 5.00 

22784 Morocco 6.00 

22801 History of Initiation. Oliver 1.50 

2281 1 History of K. T. Revised. Addison 3.25 

22812 Library Sheep 3.50 

22818 Half American Russia 3.75 

22813 Half American Morocco 4.00 

22819 Full American Russia 4.75 

22814 Full American Morocco 5.00 

22817 Full Persian Morocco 8.75 

22821 History of Memphis Rite. Gottlieb 1.00 

22831 History of O. E. S. Engle 2.25 

22841 History of Rosicrucians — Waite 2.50 

24276. Initiation, Way of. Rudolf Steiner, P. D 1.00 

24280 Paper 75 

22976 Initiation and Its Results. Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D. 1.00 



23010 Initiation of a Candidate — 6 copies (Burlesque) 5.00 

22991 Indian Masonry. Wright 1.50 

22986 In Memoriam — Orin Welsh. (Shopworn) .... 1.50 

22981 Installation Ceremonies. Simons — Whiting 40 

22985 Paper 25 

22281 Introduction and History, A. A. S. R 2.00 

22996 In Tune with the Infinite. Trine 1 .25 

2301 1 I. O. O. F. Hist, and Manual 3.75 

23013 Half Morocco 4.75 

23914 Full Morocco 6.50 

23001 Irish Prince and Hebrew Prophet. Kissick 1.50 

23046 Jerico Road. (I. O. O. F.) Thompson 1.00 

22 53° Jesuitry and Frmsy. Rameses 15 

23056 Jesus, the Last Great Initiate. Schure 1.00 

23076 Jewels of Pythian Knighthood, cloth 3.00 

23078 Half Morocco 4.00 

23079 Full Morocco 5.00 

23061 Josephus, The Works of 1.75 

23121 Kabbalah Unveiled. S. L. M. Mathers. Goth.. 3.50 

23086 Kingdom of Love. Frank 1.00 

23120 King Solomon's Secret (Farce) 35 

23092 K. of P. Drill. Carnahan. Leather 1.50 

23091 Cloth 1.00 

231 15 Knights of the Zoroasters (Burlesque) , 6 copies 3.75 

23070 Knight Templar Melodies, per doz 4.80 

23071 Koran. Translated by Sale 1.50 

23106 Krishna and Orpheus. Schure 1.25 

26045 Labyrinth as a Life Story. O. E. S. Paper 25 

23141 Law of Mental Medicine. T.J.Hudson 1.50 

23146 Law of Psychic Phenomena. T. J. Hudson.... 1.50 

23 161 Lexicon of Freemasonry. Mackey, 3.00 

231 5 1 Life and Power from Within. Colville 75 

23186 Life and Doctrine of Paracelsus. Cloth 2.50 

23286 Life and Writings of Dr. Robt. Fludd. Cloth. . 2.50 

23176 Light of Asia. Edwin Arnold 75 

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